PDF Printing with BI Publisher makes empty document

Question

Hi all,
We have installed the BI Publisher. And configured apex to use it as printer server.
In Apex we created a report query. The query I exported to an xml file. And I also exported the xml schema.
These two files I imported in Word with the BI Publisher plugin. Next I created a simple document with the word plugin and exported it as XSL-FO.
In Apex I created a report_layout with named columns based on the xsl-fo document I created.
Now when I go to the created report query and point to that document it will render an empty file. I get an error message telling me the file is damaged.
The query returns data however.
We are using Apex 4.
Does anybody have a clue?
Is there a way I can add some debugging in the process?
Thanks,
Maurice
Edited by: maurice.niezen on Oct 6, 2010 5:12 AM

Answer 1

If you are using that route, I'd try editing the xsl file before you upload it into APEX.
I found that APEX didn't like some of the tags, so if you look at your XSL file in wordpad or similar and delete the following lines if they are there:
<xsl:param name="_XDOCALENDAR">GREGORIAN</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="_XDOLOCALE">en-US</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="_XDOTIMEZONE">GMT</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="_XDODFOVERRIDE">;</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="_XDOCURMASKS">;</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="_XDONFSEPARATORS" />
<xsl:param name="_XDOCHARTTYPE">image/svg+xml</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="_XDOOUTPUTFORMAT">application/pdf</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="_XDOSVGFONTEMBED">true</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="_XDOCTX">#</xsl:param>
<xsl:variable name="_XDOXSLTCTX" select="xdoxslt:set_xslt_locale($_XDOCTX, $_XDOLOCALE, $_XDOTIMEZONE, $_XDOCALENDAR, concat($_XDODFOVERRIDE,'',$_XDOCURMASKS,'',$_XDONFSEPARATORS))" />
You should be left something like:
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'utf-8'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:ora="http://www.oracle.com/XSL/Transform/java/" xmlns:xdofo="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/fo/extensions" xmlns:xdoxslt="http://www.oracle.com/XSL/Transform/java/oracle.apps.xdo.template.rtf.XSLTFunctions" xmlns:xdoxliff="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.1" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<xsl:variable name="_XDOFOPOS" select="''"/>
<xsl:variable name="_XDOFOPOS2" select="number(1)"/>
<xsl:variable name="_XDOFOTOTAL" select="number(1)"/>
<xsl:variable name="_XDOFOOSTOTAL" select="number(0)"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
before the root tag.
That worked for me, so worth a try.
Jon.
PS - Just to add that was when we were set up with standard printing rather than advanced.
Edited by: J F Miller on Oct 6, 2010 1:33 PM