ABAP: XML + template = PDF?

Hi,
I'm trying to create an interactive pdf form in ABAP using the form's template (defined in FSP) & some XML data.
data: LV_PDF type XSTRING,
      LV_FORM type ref to IF_FP_WB_FORM,
      LV_FORMOBJ type ref to IF_FP_FORM,
      LV_LAYOUT type ref to IF_FP_LAYOUT,
      LV_XFT type XSTRING,
      LS_LAYOUT type FPLAYOUT
LO_PDFOBJ->RESET( ).
LO_PDFOBJ->SET_DATA( exporting FORMDATA = LV_XML_DATA ).
select single * from FPLAYOUT into LS_LAYOUT where NAME = 'ZTEST_FORM'.
LO_PDFOBJ->SET_TEMPLATE( exporting XFTDATA = LS_LAYOUT-LAYOUT FILLABLE = 'X').
LO_PDFOBJ->SET_OUTPUTPDF( exporting DYNAMIC = 'X' ).
LO_PDFOBJ->EXECUTE( ).
LO_PDFOBJ->GET_PDF( importing PDFDATA = LV_PDF ).
At LO_PDFOBJ->EXECUTE( ) I get a CX_FP_RUNTIME_SYSTEM exception: "processing exception during Render Operation, com.adobe.ProcessingError: SOM expression error while configuring the XMLForm module. Please validate the input files or".
The XML in LV_XML_DATA is correct since I retrieved it from an interactive pdf form that has been generated using the ZTEST_FORM template.
What am I missing?
Thanks,
Jeroen

It sounds like you're talking about making a form. You can do this in Acrobat by adding interactive form fields. Exactly how you do this depends on which version of Acrobat you're using. More information is in the Acrobat Help doc, but post again if you have more questions. Another useful resource for tutorials about creating form is: http://www.AcrobatUsers.com

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I am desperately trying to find a tool (preferably open source but commercial is fine also) that will sit on top of a PDF and allow me to query it's text for content and formatting (I don't care about images). I have found some tools that get me part of the way there, but nothing that seems to provide an end-to-end solution but is quite lightweight. My main question is WHY are there so many tools that go from PDF to RTF, and many tools that go from RTF to XML, but NONE that I can find that go PDF to XML.
To clarify, by formatting I simply mean whether a line/block of text is bold/italic, and its font size. I am not concerned with exact position on the page. The background is that I will be searching PDFs and assigning importance to whether text is a heading/bodytext etc. We already have a search tool in place so implementing a pure PDF search engine is not an option. I need a lightweight tool that simply allows me to either make calls directly to the PDF OR converts to XML which I can parse.
Some tools I have tried:
1) PDFBox (Java Library) - Allows the extraction of text content easily, but doesn't seem to have good support for formatting.
2) JPedal (Java Library) - Allows extraction of text content easily, and supports formatting IF XML structured data is in the PDF (not the case for my data).
3) Nitro PDF (Tool) + RTF to XML (script) - This works quite nicely and shows that PDF to XML is possible, but why do I have to use 2 tools? Also, these are not libraries I can integrate into my app.
4) iText (Java Library) - Seems great at creating PDFs but poor at extracting content.
I don't really expect someone to give me a perfect solution (although that would be nice!).
Instead, what I'd like to know is WHY tools support PDF to RTF/Word/whatever retaining formatting, and other tools support RTF to XML with the formatting information retained. What is it about PDF and RTF/Word that makes it feasible to convert that way, but not to XML. Also, as I found in 3) above, it is perfectly feasible to end up as XML from PDF, so why do no tools support this reliably!
Many thanks for any advice from PDF gurus.

XML doesn't mean anything - it's just a generic concept for structuring
information. You need a specific GRAMMAR of XML to mean anything. So what
grammar would you use? Something standard? Make up your own?
However, there are a number of commercial and open source products that can
convert PDF to various XML grammars - SVG, ABW, and various custom grammars.
But the other thing you need to understand is that most PDF files do not
have any structure associated with them (as you saw when using JPEDAL). As
such, any concepts of paragraphs/sections/tables/etc. Are WILD GUESSES by
the software in question.

Using XSL-XML template to convert name value pairs into XML elements

Hi,
I have a xml document in the format:
<?xml version=”1.0”?>
<body title="Mr" firstName="Joesph" middeNames="George Harry" lastname="Smith" countrycode="GBP"/>
I need to convert this using a XSL-XML template in BI publisher to return XML in the following format, while doing some conversion, e.g. converting countrycode from GBP to UK:
<?xml version=”1.0”?>
<body>
<title>Mr</title>
<firstName>Joseph</firstName>
<middleNames>George Harry</middleNames>
<lastname>Smith</lastname>
<countrycode>UK</countrycode>
</body>
Would appreciate if anyone could point me in the correct direction.

Hi Sweta,
Why MTB??? Message Transformation bean is used to change the format of the message... If you are planning to call any XSLT or java mapping through that then you can give it a try..
>>how to get the last and first 3 special characters in the output text using MTB?
Put them in message mapping itself and write it in File
Regards
Suraj

XML mapping, PDF output

Hi!
I am working with the latest JDeveloper release. Does JDeveloper have a tool to create custom layouts from xml data and
print(output) the results as a pdf file?

I do not think there is something in JDeveloper. XSL-FO is what you would use for converting from XML to PDF, you will find a good tutorial here:
http://www.w3schools.com/xslfo/default.asp
Apache FOP ( http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ ) is a free implementation of an XSL-FO engine.
If you want also a visual tool to avoid having to create your XSLFO file manually, you can look at some XSL-FO which are available, one of them is http://www.java4less.com/fopdesigner/fodesigner.php

ABAP: XML + template = PDF?

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