A man who is preoccupied with and often vain about his clothes and manners; a dandy. a man who is very interested in his clothes and appearance - used to show disapproval (fop (15-18 centuries))
Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) is a print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects We use it primarily to transform fo files generated by DocBook XSL style sheets into PDF documents, but it can certainly turn Formatting Objects files into many other forms, such as PCL, PS, SVG, MIF, TXT, and others
A Java application by James Tauber that translates XML documents to PDF making use of XSL's formatting objects At 9th November FOP has been donated to the Apache XML project The FOP Homepage