TOC in PDF

I need to generate a document whose face page is a government form and the continuation pages have quite a few logic to churn out the contents. I have kept the government form as PDF template. The continuation pages are put in a RTf template so that i can use xsl to code my logic. I then use PDFDocMerge API to combine this into a single PDF.
The issue that am facing is, i have a TOC sitting in the face page. I need to give the page numbers against the sections which am generating in the RTF template. What i need is someway to parse the generated PDF of the continuation pages, retrieve the sections and corresponding pages and update it to the face page PDF before/after merging the docs.
Is this possible? Is there any api. I checked the fo processor api but couldn't find any methods. Are there any other ways of achieving this?
Any pointers please.
Thanks,
Bhuvana

Glad you found something that worked. For the future ... I found that if you create the PDF from BOOK and following these steps you can get the hyperlinks to automatically tag. This will work if you are getting editable hyperlink boxes for the TOC -- I find that it is creating these (although I could swear it didn't earlier). Anyway:
1. Select all chapters in the book and create PDF with hyperlinks and bookmarks. Save as TEST.PDF
2. Open the PDF and in the Pages Panel extract the page or pages containing the the TOC from the PDF. Save this as TOCtest.pdf
3. Delete the Tags from the TOCtest.pdf file -- in the Tags Panel, select the Root tag, right click and select delete
4. Select Add Tags to Document to this same file.
5. Examine the tags to see if all the OBJLINKs are tagged. Repeat steps 3 and 4 again (sometimes it doesn't autotag correctly the first time). You may have to manually correct some of the structure -- headings and/or artifacts on these pages.
6. Save again.
7. Go back to the main document TEST.PDF -- delete the TOC page or pages from that document (assuming you didn't when you extracted.)
8. On the pages panel, Insert from file and choose TOCtest.pdf -- insert before the first page.
9. This will bring in the newly tagged TOC and it's tags HOWEVER the tags will be out of order in the tags panel. They will be at the bottom and you will need to find them and MOVE them where they should be.
Still more effort than you should have to but it worked for me.
Not sure how to record a bug with Adobe, but my testing in CS5 shows that this is NOT a new problem. CS5.5 did the same thing for me.

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First, the Cairngorm framework version 3 seems to be quite good - so hats off to the people behind the project (Alex, Francois, etc.)
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