<!--{{Proposed deletion|reason=''Notability and other issues cited in 2016 were never addressed. If anything, it is less notable; RenderX is no longer listed as a member of the World Wide Web Consortium or as a contributor to Oasis. Company address is now a coworking space.''}} -->{{multiple issues| {{notability|Companies|date=May 2016}} {{primary sources|date=May 2016}} {{third-party|date=May 2016}} }} {{Infobox company | name = RenderX | type = Private | logo = RenderXlogo.png
| founded = {{Start date|1999}}, California, United States | location = Palo Alto, California, United States | industry = Software development | products = XML to PDF Layout Engine | website = [http://www.renderx.com www.renderx.com] }} '''RenderX, Inc''' is a commercial software development company that provides standards-based software products, used for typeset-quality electronic and print output of business content. RenderX develops products that convert XML content into printable formats such as PDF, PostScript and AFP.
== History ==
RenderX started as a company to promote open standards in general and XSL-FO in particular, participating in a contest announced by Sun and Adobe.<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-222786.html Sun, Adobe offer bounty for XSL]</ref>{{failed verification|date=May 2016}} Later the contest was cancelled but the company decided to proceed anyway.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}
== Contribution to XSL-FO community ==
The company has devised a DTD for XSL-FO documents<ref>{{cite book |last = Simpson |first = John E. |title = Just XSL |publisher = Prentice Hall PTR |year = 2001 |isbn = 0-13-060311-2 |ref = simpson2001 |url-access = registration |url = https://archive.org/details/justxslsimp00simp }}</ref><ref>[http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/tools.html XSL Tools]</ref> and holds three patents of converting XML to PDF.<ref>[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=3&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=RenderX.ASNM.&OS=AN/RenderX&RS=AN/RenderX Methods for rendering footnotes ]</ref><ref>[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=RenderX.ASNM.&OS=AN/RenderX&RS=AN/RenderX Methods for rendering tables]</ref><ref>[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=RenderX.ASNM.&OS=AN/RenderX&RS=AN/RenderX Methods and systems for rendering electronic data]</ref> RenderX is one of the 335 members of the World Wide Web Consortium<ref>[http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Members]</ref> and a contributor<ref>[http://www.oasis-open.org/about/contributors.php OASIS Contributors]</ref> to OASIS.
== Products ==
RenderX's main product is a Java-based XSL-FO formatting engine called XEP, which converts XSL-FO documents to printable form (PDF or PostScript). XEP is free for academic and personal use.
XEP conforms to Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), a W3C recommendation. It also supports a subset of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).<ref>{{cite web |title=XEP Engine |url=https://www.renderx.com/tools/xep.html |website=RenderX |access-date=2026-04-22}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == *[http://www.renderx.com/ RenderX corporate website] *[http://www.techrepublic.com/article/use-the-flexibility-of-xep-to-render-and-publish-xml-presentations/5483185 Use the flexibility of XEP to render and publish XML presentations]
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