From XML to XSL FO

How to produce XSL FO file from XML file using XSLT (or something else). Is it possible, and can someone give some example ?

You can use JAXP to apply an XSLT to an XML file. Beyond that questions about XSLT should be posted somewhere else. This is mostly for Java and XML not XML only help.

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Producing pdf from XML via XSL:FO

Anyboy point me in the direction of a good tutorial, book or any other reference on how to produce a pdf from XML, please?

Elliott Rusty Harold's XML Bible has a decent chapter re: XSL-FO. The on-line version might even be up-to-date (the print edition that I have is not).
The Apache FOP documentation is pretty good.

How to generate HTML from XML and XSL?

Hi all,
I am new to XML.
Can I somehow see the HTML-Output of the XML-File, when I have the XSL-File too, but don't use any XML-Editor (XMLSpy) and FOP? I do not want use any additional tools - only the database tools.
What I need for this?
Do I need the XSLT-File too?
I am waiting for your answers, when possible with examples please.
Regards
Leonid Pavlov

Please post on the General XML forum.

Generating PDF with XML and XSL

Hi, quick basic question...
I'm trying to generate pdf doc from xml with xsl.
I'm using following sample code from xml.apache.org
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
Driver driver =new Driver();
driver.setOutputStream(response.getOutputStream());
driver.setRenderer(Driver.RENDER_PDF);
Transformer transformer=TransformerFactory.newInstance()
.newTransformer(new StreamSource("foo.xsl"));
transformer.transform(xmlsource, new SAXResult(driver.getContentHandler()));
xmlSource is my regular xml that wants to be pdf.
is foo.xsl any regular xsl that I use to coonvert xml into html?
or is it some special xsl that is tailored for pdf.
Is this what is called xsl-fo?
Thanks
IL

Hi IL,
XSLT can translate XML to something else. It is most suited to transforming to another tree-like format (XML, HTML, etc.) but can be 'asked' to produce other kinds of output, flat text for example.
It is driven by an XSL file which is a series of patterns to match and output to produce.
This XSL file can be used to generate another XML document in which the nodes come from the Formatting Object namespace. These describe, in generic terms the format of an output document based upon the contents of the original XML.
The formatting object XML document can then be used as input to a formatting object XML processor which can generate PDF output from it.
You may want to check out:
www.w3c.org
for all the stuff on XML, XSL, XSLT, Formatting Objects, etc., and:
xml.apache.org
for imformation on Xalan, which is an XSL processor and FOP, which is a formatting object processor.
Hope that helps,
Peter.

Conversion from xml to csv using xsl

hi i am converting from xml to csv using xsl i am getting the extra junk character(space) in the csv file.below i written the xml file and xsl file
xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"?>
<DOCUMENTS>
     <FILE>
     <DOCUMENT>
          <BUSINESS>finance</BUSINESS>
          <PROGRAM>CM</PROGRAM>
          <PROJECT>Testing Area</PROJECT>
          <NAME>121940~1.doc</NAME>
          <TEXT>SQL</TEXT>
          <LINK>http://www.sql.org/</LINK>
     </DOCUMENT>
     <DOCUMENT>
          <BUSINESS>finance</BUSINESS>
          <PROGRAM>CM</PROGRAM>
          <PROJECT>Testing Area</PROJECT>
          <NAME>121940~1.doc</NAME>
          <TEXT>Information</TEXT>
          <LINK>http://google.com/</LINK>
     </DOCUMENT>
     <DOCUMENT>
          <BUSINESS>finance</BUSINESS>
          <PROGRAM>CM</PROGRAM>
          <PROJECT>Testing Area</PROJECT>
          <NAME>121940~1.doc</NAME>
          <TEXT>Configuration</TEXT>
          <LINK>http://msdn.microsoft.com/</LINK>
     </DOCUMENT>
     </FILE>
</DOCUMENTS>
xsl file
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="DOCUMENTS">
<xsl:text>Business,Program,Project,DocumentName,Textforlink,Hyperlink</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="FILE">
<xsl:value-of select="DOCUMENT/BUSINESS"/>
<xsl:value-of select="','"/>
<xsl:value-of select="DOCUMENT/PROGRAM"/>
<xsl:value-of select="','"/>
<xsl:value-of select="DOCUMENT/PROJECT"/>
<xsl:value-of select="','"/>
<xsl:value-of select="DOCUMENT/NAME"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="DOCUMENT">
<xsl:value-of select="','"/>
<xsl:value-of select="','"/>
<xsl:value-of select="','"/>
<xsl:value-of select="','"/>
<xsl:value-of select="TEXT"/>
<xsl:value-of select="','"/>
<xsl:value-of select="LINK"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
for converting to csv i am using java program.
please go through it.

<xsl:value-of select="','"/>That's not the correct way to output a literal comma. Just write the comma directly, or use xsl:text. And don't put in those line breaks either. You can reduce the rule for FILE to something like this:
xsl:template match="FILE">
<xsl:value-of select="DOCUMENT/BUSINESS"/>, <xsl:value-of select="DOCUMENT/PROGRAM"/>, <xsl:value-of select="DOCUMENT/PROJECT"/>, <xsl:value-of select="DOCUMENT/NAME"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

Extra texts got spits out from XML XSL transformation?

Hi:
I was trying to output a transformed text from a XSL with XML file, It seems that it spits out all the values from xml file inbetween all the element tags. But all I really need is just a small chunk of it. Does any one know how to get rid of the extra stuff from the generated text?
Thanks

If your XSL doesn't specify what to do with a particular node, the default is to copy it to the output. That's what is happening to you. The remedy is for your XSL to specify a template for the root node ("/") that produces the output you want. Or something like that, your details are rather sketchy.

How do I generate HTML from XML & XSL using XSL Processor ?

I want to generate a HTML from XML & XSL using XDK for C on
linux-8i.
I run the XSLSample well.
But it only generate a XML from a XML & a XSL.
Can any one give me some advise or sample code?

Just use HTML tags instead of xml tags in your stylesheet, and
you'll generate HTML instead.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
      <body>
        <xsl:for-each select="ROWSET">
          <table border="1" cellspacing="0">
            <xsl:for-each select="ROW">
              <tr>
                <td><xsl:value-of select="EMPNO"/></td>
                <td><xsl:value-of select="ENAME"/></td>
              </tr>
            </xsl:for-each>
          </table>
        </xsl:for-each>
      </body>
    </html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Pls Help me with steps to add data from xml file to SAP B1 through B1iSN.

Pls Help me with steps to add data from xml file to SAP B1 through B1iSN. I am getting stuck in xsl transformation. not able to understand where the mapping code needs to be added.
Pls explain me the steps for adding data from xml to B1 quotation step by step.
thanks and regards
Priya

Hi,
Have you checked this: https://sap.na.pgiconnect.com/p45508295/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal ?
Thanks,
Gordon

Unable to display a variable value in xml through xsl using coldfusion

Hi ColdFusion Heroes ,
Is their any one to help me in this issue . I am new to cold
fusion , XML and XSL .
Detail Explaination :
develoment_files.cfm is a .cfm page , which includes an xml
page .
development_files_dropdown.xsl is a xsl page .
develoment_files.cfm : Code is as follows .
<CFDIRECTORY ACTION="LIST" DIRECTORY="#somepath#"
NAME="DirContents" FILTER="p*">
<CFQUERY DBTYPE="query" NAME="Files">
SELECT *
FROM DirContents
WHERE Type = 'File'
</CFQUERY>
<CFOUTPUT><?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
href="../XSL/development_files_dropdown.xsl"?>
<Test xmlns:xsi='
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'>
<CFLOOP QUERY="Files">
<Directory>
<DisplayName>#Name#</DisplayName>
<FullPath>#Name#</FullPath>
</Directory>
</cfloop>
</Test></CFOUTPUT>
This file generates a query resulting files starting with p*
and then it should be a file and manipulates in xml.
development_files_dropdown.xsl pages is as follows.
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Test">
<B>Script Name: </B>
<select name="T1_Dev_Script" CLASS="DevInput">
<xsl:for-each select="Directory">
<option>
<xsl:attribute name="value">
<xsl:value-of select="FullPath/text()"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="DisplayName/text()"/>
</option>
</xsl:for-each>
</select>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
This is only for the purpose of display .
Now i want to get one particular file named "pfile" { Code is
written in development_files.cfm page and kept it in a variable } I
want to display it in #Name# filed. how can i do that ? I am
getting XML Parsing error from javascript .
Could any one look into this .
Thanks & Regards,
Nataraj G

The first part is right -
1) drag a text element onto the page, at a location in which you want the variable value to be displayed
2) On the left hand bottom page - go to the web item properties for the text element
3) scroll down to the specific properties for the item - in that uncheck the first two check boxes - display general text elements & display static filter values
4) in the next item in the properties (List of text elements) click once on the box where List is written and then clcik on the small browse button that appears.
5) in the window that opens, in the element type field, select variable/variable value as key (as per your requirement) and then under the element ID field type in the technical name of your variable that you want to display.
click ok and save your template and try executing it.
See if this solves your problem.
regards,
Nikhil

How to create an Excel file from XML in the Receiver File Adapter Comm Ch

How do I create an Excel file from XML in the Receiver File Adapter Communication Channel? I have my mapping done and I am outputting the file as a comma delimited csv file. However, the target can only process an Excel file (.xls). How can I generate an Excel in XI?
I saw this blog, but I don't know how to create a XSLT transformation.
/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/12/10/xi-generating-excel-files-without-the-java-nor-the-conversion-agent-not-possible
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Here are the steps I took to create an XSLT transformation in XI 3.0:
1. I created my source and target XSDs using XMLSpy.
2. I created the XSLT mapping from source to target in XMLSpy (referencing the souce XSD schema).
3. I created another XSLT mapping to format the target into Excel XML.
4. Import the source and target XSDs in the IR's External Definitions
5. Zip each XSLT mapping (.xls) and import it into the IR's Imported Archives
6. Reference the XSL mappings in the Interface Mapping

Cannot view PDF created by passing xml and XSL-FO using UTL_HTTP

Hi,
Using UTL_HTTP Iam trying to contact a servlet which uses the input XML and XSL/FO to produce a PDF.However, when I run the procedure , I get the following error 'File does not begin with -%PDF' ? I checked the output on the console and the blob values does not start with %PDF . Below is the sample from my code , please let me know if Iam commiting a mistake somewhere. I confirmed that the servlet itself is working fine by confirming with test webpage that takes xml and stylesheet input and generates a PDF when 'submitted' to servlet on the click of a button.
INSERT INTO TESTPDF ( PDF_REPORT ) VALUES ( Empty_Blob() ) RETURNING PDF_REPORT INTO vBlobRef;
vReportURL :='/rufop/fop?xml='||xmldoc||'&xsltRPath=../../test/PAXSL.xsl';
req := UTL_HTTP.BEGIN_REQUEST (url=>vReportURL, method=>'POST');
resp := utl_http.get_response(req);
loop
begin
Utl_Http.read_raw(resp, vData);
Dbms_Lob.writeAppend ( lob_loc => vBlobRef , amount => Utl_Raw.length(vData) , buffer => vData );
exception
when utl_http.end_of_body then
exit;
end;
end loop;
Utl_Http.end_response(resp);
owa_util.mime_header('application/pdf',false);
htp.p('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="test.pdf"');
htp.p('Content-Length: '|| dbms_lob.getlength(vBlobRef));
owa_util.http_header_close;
wpg_docload.download_file(vBlobRef);
Thanks in advance,
Jen

Hello guys! I have been assigned the same task,i.e to generate pdf through xml using xsl stylesheet.
I have a procedure which is creating the xml and the stylesheet. But I have no idea how to write the procedure which passes this xml to fo engine. I am very new to this. Can anyone please share your thoughts with me so as how to accomplish this? By reading blogs on internet I figured I would have to use UTIL_HTTP but don't know how.
Sunny
Edited by: 887252 on May 29, 2012 1:24 AM

Remove Namespace from XML File except Attribute

Hi XI Experts ,
1.I have referred to the code of xslt Generic XSLT Code to Remove ALL Namespaces from XML:
http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1920630
But this removes the Attribute : id from the records .
My expected output is supposed to be :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="GBK"?>
<body>
<head>
    <nsrsbh>112001069711</nsrsbh>
    <nsrmc>诺维信（中国）生物技术有限公司出口发票</nsrmc>
    <dcrq>20120209</dcrq>
    <sssq_q>20111201</sssq_q>
    <sssq_z>20120207</sssq_z>
    <records>4</records>
</head>
<data>
    <record id="1">
       <fpdm></fpdm>
    </record>
</data>
</body
But after using this XSLT code it removes :id from <record_1 id=> and generated the below code :
The xml file now doesn't contain teh attribute :id
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="GBK"?>
<body>
<head>
    <nsrsbh>112001069711</nsrsbh>
    <nsrmc>诺维信（中国）生物技术有限公司出口发票</nsrmc>
    <dcrq>20120209</dcrq>
    <sssq_q>20111201</sssq_q>
    <sssq_z>20120207</sssq_z>
    <records>4</records>
</head>
<data>
    <record>
      1
      <fpdm></fpdm>
       </record>
</data>
</body>
Could you please provide your input
Plaese note : Here XI versin iS x1 3.0 SP7 . I have tried suing the Analyzer bean for the Encoing of Chinese : GBK Intsead of UTF-8 in the Namespace . But AF_Modules/XMLAnonymizerBean is not comptacible with XI 3.0 SP7
Hence i have used the following code to remove namespcae and add Encoding :GBK instead of UTF-8:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output encoding="GBK"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

You could use exclude-result-prefixes.
For example:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:wt="http://www.example.com" exclude-result-prefixes="wt">
</xsl:stylesheet>

JSF, tiles, xml and xsl

Good days people, I am employed at an app that wants to integrate JSF, tiles, xml and xsl.
Basically the app receives information of the user's interfaz, builds an url with the above mentioned information and invokes to a service web that a xml returns with the information. The idea is to generate the exit in format html or wml with an insole(staff) xsl and to send the result in this format to every jsp that is going to form a part of the page that it will generate tiles. at first I understand that it is feasible, i�d like to know if someone already has done it and since it has done it.
Just now what I have is a managed bean that receives the parameters of the altar frontal and invokes a method of a service, like this:
public String encuentra(){
//deja los atributos privados rellenos.
String mensaje ;
crearYRellenarBusquedaVO();
try {
setResultado(this.getServicio().obtenerResultadosWML(this.getBusquedaVO()));
mensaje="succesNoJS";
}catch(java.lang.IllegalArgumentException e){
mensaje="error";
}catch(es.yell.frontlite.exceptions.SrvBusquedaNoxtrumServiceException e1){
mensaje="error";
}catch(Exception e2){
mensaje="error";
return mensaje;
public String obtenerResultadosWML(es.yell.frontlite.service.impl.BusquedaVO busquedaVO){
if (busquedaVO == null){
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
"obtenerResultadosJSdesactivado(es.yell.frontlite.service.impl.BusquedaVO busquedaVO) - 'busquedaVO' no puede ser nulo.");
try{
return this.manejarObtenerResultadosWML(busquedaVO);
}catch(es.yell.frontlite.exceptions.SrvBusquedaNoxtrumServiceException e1){
throw new es.yell.frontlite.exceptions.SrvBusquedaNoxtrumServiceException(
"Error ejecutando el servicio String obtenerResultadosJSdesactivado(es.yell.frontlite.service.impl.BusquedaVO busquedaVO). " + e1.getCause(),e1);
}catch(Exception e){
throw new es.yell.frontlite.exceptions.SrvBusquedaNoxtrumServiceException(
"Error ejecutando el servicio String obtenerResultadosJSdesactivado(es.yell.frontlite.service.impl.BusquedaVO busquedaVO). " + e.getCause(),e);
//it returns html code!
protected String manejarObtenerResultadosWML(es.yell.frontlite.service.impl.BusquedaVO busquedaVO)
throws java.lang.Exception{
try{
// xmlOrigen has full xml response from server
String xmlOrigen = manejarObtenerResultadosJSActivado(busquedaVO);
Source xmlSource = new StreamSource(new StringBufferInputStream(xmlOrigen));
Source xsltSource = new StreamSource(SrvBusquedaNoxtrumServiceImpl.class.getResourceAsStream(Constantes.XSL_FILE));
StringWriter cadenaSalida = new StringWriter();
Result bufferResultado = new StreamResult(cadenaSalida);
TransformerFactory factoriaTrans = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformador = factoriaTrans.newTransformer(xsltSource);
transformador.transform(xmlSource, bufferResultado);
System.out.println(cadenaSalida.toString());
return cadenaSalida.toString();
}catch(Exception e2){
throw new es.yell.frontlite.exceptions.SrvBusquedaNoxtrumServiceException (e2.getMessage());
With this exit in html, since(as,like) how could i forward it towards a jsp especially?
faces-config.xml
<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>/index.jsp</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>succesNoJS</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/jsDesactivado.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>error</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/error.jsp</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>
index.jsp
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<f:view>
<f:loadBundle basename="MessageResources" var="msg"/>
<head>
<title>
${msg.titulo}
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h:form id="formulario">
Que:
<h:inputText id="campoQue" value="#{yellProxy.campoQue}" />
Donde
<h:inputText id="campoDonde" value="#{ yellProxy.campoDonde}" />
<h:commandButton id="boton" value="Encuentra" action="#{yellProxy.encuentra}"/>
</h:form>
</f:view>
</body>
</html>
jsDesactivado.jsp
<%@page contentType="text/html"%>
<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%--
The taglib directive below imports the JSTL library. If you uncomment it,
you must also add the JSTL library to the project. The Add Library... action
on Libraries node in Projects view can be used to add the JSTL 1.1 library.
--%>
<%--
<%@taglib uri=" http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
--%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
" http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JSP Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>JSP Page</h1>
jsDesactivado!!
<%--
This example uses JSTL, uncomment the taglib directive above.
To test, display the page like this: index.jsp?sayHello=true&name=Murphy
--%>
<%--
<c:if test="${param.sayHello}">

Hello ${param.name}!
</c:if>
--%>
<jsp:getProperty name="yellProxy" property="resultado"/>
</body>
</html>
If you could pass me a simple example of use of an app that uses JSF, tiles, xml and xsl, i�be grateful
regards a lot!

We too (at Viking Freight) would also be very interested to see if anybody
has produced such a useful series of classes...
Frank Lees, Developer
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From: Amin, Kamran [mailto:kamran.aminframeworkinc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 12:11 PM
To: 'Forte User'
Subject: (forte-users) XML and XSL in Forte
Has anybody integrated an XSL parser with Forte. I know Forte provides us
with an XML parser but that does not help with parsing XSL. There a lot of
parsers written in JAVA but that will not integrate well with Forte. We
need something that will be easy to integrate with Forte. This parser will
take our XML and XSL to give us a result set. If anybody can comment on the
subject or share some information I would appreciate it.
thanks in advance.
ka
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RE: (forte-users) XML and XSL in Forte

We too (at Viking Freight) would also be very interested to see if anybody
has produced such a useful series of classes...
Frank Lees, Developer
-----Original Message-----
From: Amin, Kamran [mailto:kamran.aminframeworkinc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 12:11 PM
To: 'Forte User'
Subject: (forte-users) XML and XSL in Forte
Has anybody integrated an XSL parser with Forte. I know Forte provides us
with an XML parser but that does not help with parsing XSL. There a lot of
parsers written in JAVA but that will not integrate well with Forte. We
need something that will be easy to integrate with Forte. This parser will
take our XML and XSL to give us a result set. If anybody can comment on the
subject or share some information I would appreciate it.
thanks in advance.
ka
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How to convert to ' ' in xml using xsl.

Hi all,
I have a string downloaded which has the following string
String= text1 <I> text2 </I⁢
I have italics tag in my xml file. But my browser does not identifies italics. So i decided to comment out italics tag in my xml using xsl
So what i need is
String = text1 text2
basically to comment out italics tag alone.
How can i replace <I> to ?
Is there any way in xsl to do the above in a string?
or
Any other ways where i can just remove <I> in my out xml file using xsl?
Thanks in advance.
Menaga.

Hi,
The ultimate solution would be that you also install also a cocoon server (http://cocoon.apache.org/), but that might be overkill.
Have a look at /people/sap.user72/blog/2004/11/10/bsphowto-generate-pdf-output-from-a-bsp for detailed info on creating PDF from BSP.
If you want to use XSL(-FO), you might have a look at things like http://alt-soft.com/products_xml2pdf.jsp to be called as external command.
Eddy

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