> why does the tool
> have no default style sheet to use? I would expect it to set margins
> at 1.00 inch (or 2 centimeters), etc.

FOP (*) is passed a single file to process.
This known as XSL-FO.  (or often just FO)
It contains all such measurements.

The stylesheet is applied during the preparation of the FO file.  This is not 
(**) done by FOP but by another processor, eg xsltproc, Saxon, Xalan.  Such 
programs do also take a stylesheet as parameter, and combine the stylesheet 
data with the source data (eg DocBook).  The output is XSL-FO (or html, or 
various other possibilities).
The stylesheet that is used to produce the XSL-FO contains the default margins 
etc that you refer to.  It writes these into the FO.



Hope that help,
Richard.



(*) Or any other FO processor (ie XSL-FO to PDF convertor).
(**) Actually I think FOP can be requested to do this process too, but is not 
usually used in that way.

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