Creating sample XML file from Oracle Reports

I did a search and could not find a good answer - hopefully this is not a dumb question.
We are getting around to evaluating this tool, and I have looked at the whitepapers/user guides. I viewed the flash demo on how to build a template using the add-in. All of this seems really easy to do once you have the XML file generated.
We have a custom report that outputted to PDF. Its a very simple report, so I went ahead and switch the output type to XML. When I go to view the file through the View Output button, it gives me an error about not being able to view it - the error says it cannot display the XML data with the current style sheet - gives a line number for the temporary file and thats about it.
Question is this - should I be able to see the XML file through concurrent manager, or do I physically have to go the ouput directory and grab the file? I understand the whole process of hooking up a template to a concurrent program once I create it, but I figure having the data would make creating the template easier. Sort of a chicken and the egg things.
Thanks!

That sounds like a browser issue.
once you flip the output to XML the 'Output' file from the concurrent manager will now be XML, try doing a save as rather than opening directly or use Tools>Copy file.
Regards, Tim

Similar Messages

Create XML file from Oracle DB

Hi,
I'm working in a task to create electronic billing for Mexico Rules, to do this; I need to create a XML source that will contain all the information requested from Oracle DB.
For this reason, I'm looking how to create this XML file from Oracle DB.
All this is for the new legislations rules in Mexico to use electronic billing.
Please, if you have any reference about this, let me know.
Thanks and regards.

you may want to check out commands like xmlforest and xmlelement
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/functions221.htm
copied from documentation
Purpose
XMLForest converts each of its argument parameters to XML, and then returns an XML fragment that is the concatenation of these converted arguments.
•If value_expr is a scalar expression, then you can omit the AS clause, and Oracle Database uses the column name as the element name.
•If value_expr is an object type or collection, then the AS clause is mandatory, and Oracle uses the specified c_alias as the enclosing tag. The c_alias can be up to 4000 characters.
•If value_expr is null, then no element is created for that value_expr.
Examples
The following example creates an Emp element for a subset of employees, with nested employee_id, last_name, and salary elements as the contents of Emp:
SELECT XMLELEMENT("Emp",
XMLFOREST(e.employee_id, e.last_name, e.salary))
"Emp Element"
FROM employees e WHERE employee_id = 204;
Emp Element
<Emp>
<EMPLOYEE_ID>204</EMPLOYEE_ID>
<LAST_NAME>Baer</LAST_NAME>
<SALARY>10000</SALARY>
</Emp>

How to create xml file from Oracle and sending the same xml file to an url

How to create xml file from Oracle and sending the same xml file to an url

SQL/XML (XMLElement, XMLForest, XMLAgg, etc) and UTL_HTTP.
Whether that works for you with the version of Oracle you have, your requirements, and needs is another story. A little detail goes a long way.

How to export a data as an XML file from oracle data base?

could u pls tell me the step by step procedure for following questions...? how to export a data as an XML file from oracle data base? is it possible? plz tell me itz urgent requirement...
Thankz in advance
Bala

SQL> SELECT * FROM v$version;
BANNER
Oracle DATABASE 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
PL/SQL Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
CORE    11.1.0.6.0      Production
TNS FOR 32-bit Windows: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
5 rows selected.
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE directory utldata AS 'C:\temp';
Directory created.
SQL> declare
2    doc DBMS_XMLDOM.DOMDocument;
3    xdata XMLTYPE;
4
5    CURSOR xmlcur IS
6    SELECT xmlelement("Employee",XMLAttributes('http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' AS "xmlns:xsi",
7                                  'http://www.oracle.com/Employee.xsd' AS "xsi:nonamespaceSchemaLocation")
8                              ,xmlelement("EmployeeNumber",e.empno)
9                              ,xmlelement("EmployeeName",e.ename)
10                              ,xmlelement("Department",xmlelement("DepartmentName",d.dname)
11                                                      ,xmlelement("Location",d.loc)
12                                         )
13                   )
14     FROM   emp e
15     ,      dept d
16     WHERE e.DEPTNO=d.DEPTNO;
17
18 begin
19    OPEN xmlcur;
20    FETCH xmlcur INTO xdata;
21    CLOSE xmlcur;
22    doc := DBMS_XMLDOM.NewDOMDocument(xdata);
23    DBMS_XMLDOM.WRITETOFILE(doc, 'UTLDATA/marco.xml');
24 end;
25 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
.

Creating an xml file from abap code

Hello All,
Please let me know which FM do I need to execute in order to create an XML file from my ABAP code ?
Thanks in advance,
Paul.

This has been discussed before
XML files from ABAP programs

Creating an xml file from recordset

Hi...
XML newbie here - so.
Is it possible to create and xml file from a recordset?
I need to create a datafeed of our e-commerce products.
Also, some of the db data contains HTML Code (product
description field),
how will this effect the xml file?
Another problem is that my xml file needs to contain url's
for the products
and product images. My ASP pages contain these URL in hard
code and then
pull the actual file names from the db
Hope that makes some sense
Thanks for any help
Andy

Hi David
Thanks for your help.
I think it will have to be option 1 as i am using Access DB.
I don't know how to go about it but will serach good old
Google.
Here is my recordset below, that pulls the required data from
Access.
The product and product image URL's need to be in the xml
file but only the
product image name and product id are in the database, e.g
image name
(imagename.jpg) productid (21)
The actual URL's are hardcoded in my ASP pages, e.g <img
src="products/medium/<%=(RSDetails.Fields.Item("Image").Value)%>"
Not sure if this makes things any clearer :-|
Thanks Again
Andy
<%
Dim RSdatafeed
Dim RSdatafeed_numRows
Set RSdatafeed = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
RSdatafeed.ActiveConnection = MM_shoppingcart_STRING
RSdatafeed.Source = "SELECT Products.Product,
Products.Description,
Products.Image, Products.image2, Products.ListPrice,
Products.Price,
Products.xml_feed, Manufacturers.Manufacturer,
Shipping.ShippingCost FROM
Shipping, Products INNER JOIN Manufacturers ON
Products.ManufacturerID =
Manufacturers.ManufacturerID WHERE
(((Products.xml_feed)=No));"
RSdatafeed.CursorType = 0
RSdatafeed.CursorLocation = 2
RSdatafeed.LockType = 1
RSdatafeed.Open()
RSdatafeed_numRows = 0
%>
"DEPearson" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Andy,
>
> There are two ways you can create a xml file from a
recordset
>
> 1. Is to code it using Server.CreateObject(XMLDOM)
> 2. If you are using SQL server 2005, just request the RS
returns as XML
> data. using FOR XML AUTO after the where cause ( the
best way with 2005
> and
> higher sql server)
>
> The db data containing HTML code should not effect your
xml file, unless
> it
> is bad markup. You could wrap the data with
<![CDATA[the data or html
> markup, or javascript]]>
>
> If the url is a recordset field, then it will return
with the xml data.
> If
> not you can create a storage procedure that will build
your URL from the
> data
> in the database.
>
> It is best to use storage procedure (SP )for security
reason when pulling
> data
> from a MS Sql server, make all calls to the database in
a SP. Also be sure
> to
> validate the values in the querystrings before accepting
them, check for
> hack
> code.
>
> David
>

Create a xml file from an internal table: CALL TRANSFORMATION

Hello gurus,
I want to create a xml file using data from scustom table. I will create an internal table and will select some records to it.
I searched the forum and i discovered the call transformation, but when i execute the example program at the CALL TRANSFORMATION shows a dump screen.
How we create a xml file from internal table??
Please help me. I will mark the useful answers.

I'm using if_ixml class to create xml documents
TYPES: BEGIN OF xml_line,
         data(256) TYPE x,
       END OF xml_line.
DATA: o_ixml          TYPE REF TO if_ixml,
      o_document      TYPE REF TO if_ixml_document,
      o_element       TYPE REF TO if_ixml_element,
      o_streamfactory TYPE REF TO if_ixml_stream_factory,
      o_ostream       TYPE REF TO if_ixml_ostream,
      o_renderer      TYPE REF TO if_ixml_renderer.
DATA: t_xml_table     TYPE TABLE OF xml_line,
      v_xml_size      TYPE i.
o_ixml = cl_ixml=>create( ).
o_document = o_ixml->create_document( ).
* The o_document have a set of methods to add elements, attributes, etc.
o_element = o_document->create_simple_element(
                  name = 'RootNode'
                  value = 'some text'
                  parent = o_document ).
o_streamfactory = o_ixml->create_stream_factory( ).
o_ostream = o_streamfactory->create_ostream_itable( table = t_xml_table ).
o_renderer = o_ixml->create_renderer( ostream = o_ostream document = o_document ).
o_renderer->render( ).
v_xml_size = o_ostream->get_num_written_raw( ).
CALL METHOD cl_gui_frontend_services=>gui_download
EXPORTING
    bin_filesize = v_xml_size
    filename     = 'C:a.xml'
    filetype     = 'BIN'
CHANGING
    data_tab     = t_xml_table.

How I can create a XML file from java Aplication

How I can create a XML file from java Aplication
whith have a the following structure
<users>
<user>
<login>anyName</login>
<password>xxxx</password>
</user>
</users>
the password label must be encripted
accept any suggestion

Let us assume you have all the data from the jsp form in an java bean object..
Now you want a xml file. This can be acheived in 2 ways
1. Write it into a file using java.io classes. Say you have a class with name
write("<name>"+obj.getName+</name>);
bingo you have a flat file with the xml
2. Use data binding to do the trick
will recommend JiBx and Castor for the 2nd option
Regards,
Rajagopal

Creating an xml file from a playlist - message for iTunes staff

When I created an xml file from a playlist I noticed that in the xml file the track name was merged with the artist name in this manner "I want you - Bob Dylan".
That was hardly a problem as I could easily correct this in the FileMaker Pro environment.
But subsequently I found out, that within iTunes the track name was similarly changed to the same format. Apparently this happened when iTunes created the xml file and inadvertently also changed the track name within iTunes.
It can easily be corrected by entering File/Info, but I had over 10.000 songs in that list and it will take a lot of time. I have to do this, as I created earlier for each song a file path in FileMaker Pro, which are unrecognizable now.
Could you please correct the xml file creating procedure?

I must confess that I can't reproduce this result myself anymore.
I created the xml file in iTunes via File/Library/Export Playlist/xml structure (I translate the Dutch terms loosely) and subsequently I imported the xml file into a Filemaker Pro via File/Import/xml.
The xsl style sheet looks ok.
It looks like a freak of nature.
Still I have the evidence in my iTunes playlist, where I have another 9000 clicks to go to repair the damage.
Let's forget about it, until it happens again.
Thanks for your time.

How to export an XML file from oracle database?

plz help me its urgent requirement....could u pls tell me the step by step procedure for following questions...?how to export a data as an XML file from oracle database?
thanks in advance,
Bala.
Edited by: user3523292 on Nov 14, 2008 5:43 AM

user3523292 wrote:
plz help me its urgent requirement....could u pls tell me the step by step procedure for following questions...?how to export a data as an XML file from oracle database?
thanks in advance,
Bala.
Edited by: user3523292 on Nov 14, 2008 5:43 AMThis is a forum of volunteers. There is no "urgent" here. Nevertheless, a google search of 'xml oracle export' quickly lead me to this Oracle site:
otn.oracle.com/sample_code/tech/xml/index.html
I also see lots of hits when I search the documentation library at tahiti.oracle.com for 'xml'. This one in particular may be what you are looking for:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14252/adx_j_xsu.htm#ADXDK070

Export an XML file from oracle database

plz help me its urgent requirement....could u pls tell me the step by step procedure for following questions...?how to export a data as an XML file from oracle database? is it possible..?
thanks in advance,
Bala. is it possible?
Edited by: user3523292 on Nov 14, 2008 5:45 AM

Here's the quick and dirty method using SQL*Plus...
SQL> select * from emp where deptno = 10;
     EMPNO ENAME      JOB              MGR HIREDATE         SAL       COMM     DEPTNO
      7782 CLARK      MANAGER         7839 09-JUN-81       2450                    10
      7839 KING       PRESIDENT            17-NOV-81       5000                    10
      7934 MILLER     CLERK           7782 23-JAN-82       1300                    10
SQL> set markup html on
SQL> select * from emp where deptno = 10;
<br>
<p>
<table border='1' width='90%' align='center' summary='Script output'>
<tr>
<th scope="col">
EMPNO
</th>
<th scope="col">
ENAME
</th>
<th scope="col">
JOB
</th>
<th scope="col">
MGR
</th>
<th scope="col">
HIREDATE
</th>
<th scope="col">
SAL
</th>
<th scope="col">
COMM
</th>
<th scope="col">
DEPTNO
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">
      7782
</td>
<td>
CLARK
</td>
<td>
MANAGER
</td>
<td align="right">
      7839
</td>
<td>
09-JUN-81
</td>
<td align="right">
      2450
</td>
<td align="right">
</td>
<td align="right">
        10
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">
      7839
</td>
<td>
KING
</td>
<td>
PRESIDENT
</td>
<td align="right">
</td>
<td>
17-NOV-81
</td>
<td align="right">
      5000
</td>
<td align="right">
</td>
<td align="right">
        10
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">
      7934
</td>
<td>
MILLER
</td>
<td>
CLERK
</td>
<td align="right">
      7782
</td>
<td>
23-JAN-82
</td>
<td align="right">
      1300
</td>
<td align="right">
</td>
<td align="right">
        10
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>
SQL>which you can spool to a file.

How I could generate an XML file from a report in version 4.0B

Good morning,
How could I generate an XML file from a report? Please note that I am using version 4.0B
I don't have access to
Billy Vital

Hi,
In the Class CL_XML_DOCUMENT,
we have a method EXPORT_TO_FILE to download an XML file.

Generated pdf file from oracle reports show bad characters

Hello all,
Iam fighting with a problem with generated pdf file from oracle reports which show some bad characters. I was searching for some information but it didnt help...
I have Oracle Database 11g R2 (or 10g R2) on Oracle Linux or Windows, Oracle forms and reports 6i (i know that is very old and not supported with 11gr2 but we are in this scenario).
NLS parameters are set like this
server:
NLS_CHARACTERSET EE8MSWIN1250
NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
client:
NLS_CHARACTERSET EE8MSWIN1250
NLS_TERRITORY SLOVAK
NLS_LANGUAGE SLOVAKIA
When I run Oracle Reports it show perfect in display and when I try to print them, they are all good with good characters, but when I try to generate pdf file, some characters like č,š,ľ are not displaying corectly... This happen only when try to generate to pdf...
I try to work with uifont.ali on client side but without any result. Fonts for reports were installed on client and server side... Can someone help me with this problem? Thank you very much for every advice.
Martin

Hi Sergiusz,
Thank you for your reply. I look at what you wrote and try to make some test...
1) For first I download FontForge, which can generate type1 font from true type. So I open FontForge and open my Arial.ttf font and use "Generate Fonts" to save my Arial.ttf font to pfb and pfm (whoch are need to set in uifont.ali). I have to change encoding, because my font has 2byte encoding so I reecondode the font from ISO10646-1 to ISO8859-2 and generate to pfb.
2) Then I navigate REPORTS_PATH from regedit to my *.pfm and *.pfb files.
3) I add these lines to end of my uifont.ali
[ PDF:Embed ]
Arial = "Arial.pfm Arial.pfb"
ArialNarrow = "ArialNarrow.pfm ArialNarrow.pfb"
4) Then I generate my report but nothing change... I check "Font used" in my pdf file, but there were not my fonts embedded I guess..
I also try PDF:Subset, but it doesnt change anything... I try PDF aliasing to see if my uifont is working - this work very well, but I dont need to change font...
Any other advice? Thank you so much to everyone!
Martin

Is there anyway to create a xml file from a list so that xml file is available like an RSS.xml

Hello
My objective is to have a xml file created from a list for anonymous access. The SharePoint RSS feed is a .aspx file not xml, as shown below:
_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List=21c2cdaa%2D52f3%2D4057%2Db674%2D45e63ba77e31&View=535eb328%2Db5fb%2D45c5%2D8fe8%2Da130e92afc41
Also, is there a way to do this so that the xml content has current data like the list.
Thank you for any insight and direction.

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you wanted to create a xml file from a SharePoint list.
To generate a XML file, we can use the SharePoint Object Model or PowerShell to achieve it.
Generate a hierarchical XML file from SharePoint list using Client Object Model.
http://maxderungs.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/generate-a-hierarchical-xml-file-from-sharepoint-list/
Get SharePoint list items and export them to XML using PowerShell
http://www.robertkuzma.com/2012/09/get-sharepoint-list-items-and-export-them-to-xml-using-powershell/
More reference:
http://www.robertkuzma.com/2010/08/how-to-create-a-custom-xml-output-using-sharepoint-services-3-0/
http://traceynolte.com/blog/convert-sharepoint-list-to-xml/
Thanks & Regards,
Jason
Jason Guo
TechNet Community Support

Creating a PDF-File from a report within a service

Hello,
I have to create PDF-Files from a report within a windows service.
My source is as follows (quick and dirty) using Microsoft Report Viewer 2012
Imports Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms
Dim reportViewer1 As New Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportViewer()
Dim objRDLC As New Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.LocalReport()
reportViewer1.LocalReport.ReportEmbeddedResource = "MyApplication.MyReport.rdlc"
Dim deviceInfo As String = "<DeviceInfo>" & _
"<OutputFormat>PDF</OutputFormat>" & _
"<PageWidth>21cm</PageWidth>" & _
"<PageHeight>29.7cm</PageHeight>" & _
"<MarginTop>0.7cm</MarginTop>" & _
"<MarginLeft>0.7cm</MarginLeft>" & _
"<MarginRight>0cm</MarginRight>" & _
"<MarginBottom>0cm</MarginBottom>" & _
"</DeviceInfo>"
objRDLC.DataSources.Clear()
'Fill Report with data
reportViewer1.LocalReport.DataSources.Clear()
reportViewer1.LocalReport.DataSources.Add(New Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportDataSource("dsInfo", dt))
reportViewer1.RefreshReport()
'Output Report as File
Dim byteViewer As Byte() = reportViewer1.LocalReport.Render("PDF", deviceInfo)
Dim newFile As New FileStream("MyFileName", FileMode.Create)
newFile.Write(byteViewer, 0, byteViewer.Length)
newFile.Close()
'Clean up
newFile.Dispose()
objRDLC.DataSources.Clear()
objRDLC.Dispose()
reportViewer1.Dispose()
In most cases everything works fine.
But the service crashes after some/many reports (e.g. after 270 reports or after 1.400 reports). There is no fix number of reports that causes the service to crash.
The service crashes with the following error:
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): Fehler beim Erstellen des Fensterhandles.
   bei System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.CreateHandle(CreateParams cp)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateHandle()
   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.get_Handle()
   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.PointToScreen(Point p)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.TranslatePoint(Point fromPoint, ToolStripPointType fromPointType, ToolStripPointType toPointType)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDownItem.DropDownDirectionToDropDownBounds(ToolStripDropDownDirection dropDownDirection, Rectangle dropDownBounds)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDownItem.GetDropDownBounds(ToolStripDropDownDirection dropDownDirection)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDownItem.get_DropDownLocation()
   bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.GetDropDownBounds(Rectangle suggestedBounds)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.SetBoundsCore(Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height, BoundsSpecified specified)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.SetBounds(Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height, BoundsSpecified specified)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.set_Size(Size value)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.AdjustSize()
   bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripOverflow.OnLayout(LayoutEventArgs e)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.PerformLayout(LayoutEventArgs args)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.PerformLayout()
   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ResumeLayout(Boolean performLayout)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ResumeLayout()
   bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnLayout(LayoutEventArgs e)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.PerformLayout(LayoutEventArgs args)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.PerformLayout()
   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ResumeLayout(Boolean performLayout)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.SetBoundsCore(Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height, BoundsSpecified specified)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.TextBoxBase.SetBoundsCore(Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height, BoundsSpecified specified)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.System.Windows.Forms.Layout.IArrangedElement.SetBounds(Rectangle bounds, BoundsSpecified specified)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripControlHost.OnBoundsChanged()
   bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.SetBounds(Rectangle bounds)
   bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.set_Width(Int32 value)
   bei Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportToolBar..ctor()
   bei Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportViewer.InitializeComponent()
   bei Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportViewer..ctor()
   bei DC5Warteschlange.clsReportTools.Druck(DataTable dt, String Reportname, String ReportDataset, String Drucker, String Format, String Datei)
   bei DC5Warteschlange.clsInfoQueue.Snotiz(String[] CallIDs, String Speicherort)
   bei DC5Warteschlange.Imail.InformationMailSenden(Int32 AID, DataTable& tmpDT)
Thank you very much....
Gernot

Unfortunately, it is not a piece of code that I can send. The SQL would be embedded inside Oracle Reports tool, and you would have the option to save the output of the report in PDF format.
Once you have the Oracle Report developed, you can execute it from command line prompt and save the output to a pdf file. In your case, the cursor would be embedded inside Oracle Report
Shakti
http://www.impact-sol.com
Developers of Guggi Oracle - Tool for DBAs and Developers

Creating sample XML file from Oracle Reports

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for