Converting xml/html table to pdf via xsl-fo?

You are on the right track. Yes, you will have to convert the HTML elements into XSL-FO elements. The XSL-FO engines read XSL-FO to know how to render it, so just copying HTML elements(bound to an HTML namespace or without a namespace) into an XSL-FO file will not work.

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