XML + COCOON = PDF

Hi
I have a rather complex report to generate (PDF from a Apex page). My project budget does not allow to use BI Publisher.
Have done a bit of research of Cocoon and Apex. Can generate simple pdf's. My report have many levels. Several queries. Have seen Oracle's master detail examples but it does not cover what I want.
Can I generate the XML in a procedure in plsql (and in this way get many levels/rowset) and get it rendered to pdf using the xsl. Have anyone done this? Examples please.
Br. PJ

Hello,
You can use the External Processing attribute of a report to post an XML feed of the report to a specific URL.
There is an example here http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=11933:133 it is overridden to populate a textarea so you can see the feed.
Carl

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I managed to create a pdf File, from a XML document, using XSLT and XSL-FO.
I'd like now to print this pdf File from my Java application. Is there a simple way of doing this ?
Thank you in advance for any help.
import java.io.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;
import javax.xml.transform.sax.*;
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import org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.*;
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hi everybody
i use the code of the class XmlToPdf but i have a problem when i run it
[ERROR] Unsupported element encountered: html (Namespace: default). Source context: unavailable
[ERROR] Expected XSL-FO (root, page-sequence, etc.), SVG (svg, rect, etc.) or elements from another supported language.
java.lang.NullPointerException
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.lang.NullPointerException
     at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transformNode(TransformerImpl.java:1226)
     at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:638)
     at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:1088)
     at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:1066)
     at com.clear2pay.toolbox.reports.fop.XmlToPdf .convertXML2PDF(XmlToPdf java:526)
     at com.clear2pay.toolbox.reports.fop.XmlToPdf .main(XmlToPdf .java:557)
i don't see where is the problem.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<changelog>
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          <time>14:21</time>
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               <revision>1.9</revision>
               <prevrevision>1.4</prevrevision>
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          <author><![CDATA[jmc]]></author>
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               <revision>1.18</revision>
               <prevrevision>1.124</prevrevision>
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</changelog>
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<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'
version='1.0'>
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<xsl:param name="module"/>
<xsl:param name="cvsweb"/>
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" encoding="US-ASCII"
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/strict.dtd"/>
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<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="attribute::*[. != '']"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="changelog">
<html>
<head>
<title><xsl:value-of select="$title"/></title>
<style type="text/css">
body, p {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 80%;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ffffff;
tr, td {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #eeeee0;
td {
padding-left: 20px;
.dateAndAuthor {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: left;
background: #a6caf0;
padding-left: 3px;
a {
color: #000000;
pre {
font-weight: bold;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>
<a name="top"><xsl:value-of select="$title"/></a>
</h1>
<p style="text-align: right">Designed for use with Ant.</p>
<hr/>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1">
<xsl:apply-templates select=".//entry">
<xsl:sort select="date" data-type="text" order="descending"/>
<xsl:sort select="time" data-type="text" order="descending"/>
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</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="entry">
<tr>
<td class="dateAndAuthor">
<xsl:value-of select="date"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="time"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="author"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<pre>
<xsl:apply-templates select="msg"/></pre>
<ul>
<xsl:apply-templates select="file"/>
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</td>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="date">
<i><xsl:value-of select="."/></i>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="time">
<i><xsl:value-of select="."/></i>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="author">
<i>
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">mailto:<xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="."/></a>
</i>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="file">
<li>
<a>
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<xsl:when test="string-length(prevrevision) = 0 ">
<xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="$cvsweb"/><xsl:value-of select="$module" />/<xsl:value-of select="name" />?rev=<xsl:value-of select="revision" />&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup</xsl:attribute>
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<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="$cvsweb"/><xsl:value-of select="$module" />/<xsl:value-of select="name" />?r1=<xsl:value-of select="revision" />&r2=<xsl:value-of select="prevrevision"/></xsl:attribute>
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</xsl:choose>
<xsl:value-of select="name" /> (<xsl:value-of select="revision"/>)</a>
</li>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="msg">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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<CF_REG_STATUS>Draft</CF_REG_STATUS>
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<CF_PROD_SUBCODE>060.36</CF_PROD_SUBCODE>
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<CF_COUNTRY>India</CF_COUNTRY>
</XXTDIC_SUP_REG>
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
Mahi

Mahi,
you can't do that yet.

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hi,
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w_cparam TYPE ssfctrlop,
w_outoptions TYPE ssfcompop,
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Internal table to hold OTF data recd from the SMARTFORM
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OTHERS = 3
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WINDOW_TITLE =
DEFAULT_EXTENSION =
DEFAULT_FILE_NAME =
FILE_FILTER =
INITIAL_DIRECTORY =
WITH_ENCODING =
PROMPT_ON_OVERWRITE = 'X'
CHANGING
filename = w_FILE_NAME
path = w_FILE_PATH
fullpath = w_FULL_PATH
USER_ACTION =
FILE_ENCODING =
EXCEPTIONS
CNTL_ERROR = 1
ERROR_NO_GUI = 2
NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_GUI = 3
others = 4
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
ENDIF.
Use the FM GUI_DOWNLOAD to download the generated PDF file onto the
presentation server
CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'
EXPORTING
BIN_FILESIZE = W_bin_filesize
filename = w_FULL_PATH
FILETYPE = 'BIN'
APPEND = ' '
WRITE_FIELD_SEPARATOR = ' '
HEADER = '00'
TRUNC_TRAILING_BLANKS = ' '
WRITE_LF = 'X'
COL_SELECT = ' '
COL_SELECT_MASK = ' '
DAT_MODE = ' '
CONFIRM_OVERWRITE = ' '
NO_AUTH_CHECK = ' '
CODEPAGE = ' '
IGNORE_CERR = ABAP_TRUE
REPLACEMENT = '#'
WRITE_BOM = ' '
TRUNC_TRAILING_BLANKS_EOL = 'X'
WK1_N_FORMAT = ' '
WK1_N_SIZE = ' '
WK1_T_FORMAT = ' '
WK1_T_SIZE = ' '
IMPORTING
FILELENGTH =
tables
data_tab = T_pdf_tab
FIELDNAMES =
EXCEPTIONS
FILE_WRITE_ERROR = 1
NO_BATCH = 2
GUI_REFUSE_FILETRANSFER = 3
INVALID_TYPE = 4
NO_AUTHORITY = 5
UNKNOWN_ERROR = 6
HEADER_NOT_ALLOWED = 7
SEPARATOR_NOT_ALLOWED = 8
FILESIZE_NOT_ALLOWED = 9
HEADER_TOO_LONG = 10
DP_ERROR_CREATE = 11
DP_ERROR_SEND = 12
DP_ERROR_WRITE = 13
UNKNOWN_DP_ERROR = 14
ACCESS_DENIED = 15
DP_OUT_OF_MEMORY = 16
DISK_FULL = 17
DP_TIMEOUT = 18
FILE_NOT_FOUND = 19
DATAPROVIDER_EXCEPTION = 20
CONTROL_FLUSH_ERROR = 21
OTHERS = 22
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
ENDIF.
reward points if useful,
siri

Which unix command for converting xml to pdf

Anybody know the command in unix to convert docbook xml to PDF???
is it xsltproc or pdfwrite???
thanx

"ooba" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:gl2klg$rap$[email protected]..
>I know this is the Flex Group, but I'm getting no love
from the Flash
>group.
> 1. I need to build a thick client
> 2. I have 0 experience with Flex or AIR
> 3. I have built alot of Flash web components and a few
thick clients
> 4. I only have one week to get something working
>
> Can anyone tell me if it is even possible for Flash to
generate a PDF file
> from an imported XML file? or to browse a systems and
allow the user to
> select
> an xml file to load?
You'd need to upload the file to a server and have the server
do this.
> I need to have the client select an xml file that and
the thick client
> would
> then use a predefined xsl file and (missing this part)
need to convert the
> xml
> out to a human readable PDF format.
Depending on what server-side technology you are using, there
are probably
PDF libraries you could use.
> If you have another suggestion on how to do this please
post suggestions.
>
> All I know right now is that I need to construct a thick
client to do
> this,
> and being that Flash has been what I have built thick
clients on before
> I'd
> like to do it in Flash rather than try and figure out
how to do it in C#
> .Net
> in less than a week.
You won't be able to do it with Flash or Flex alone.
HTH;
Amy

Runtime Error For Converting Static pdf to Dynamic Xml Form pdf

Hi All,
I am converting my static pdf to dynamic xml form pdf using Adoble Livecycle Designer ES 8.2 it is giving runtime error dialog.
My static pdf size is 12MB and it contains 46 pages(mostly all pages will have images). Do we have any limitations for converting static pdf to dynamic xml form pdf ?
Error message image file is attatched to this thread.
Can any body please help me on this.
Advance Thanks
Prasad Sagala

Hi Paul,
With out dividing into smaller chunks, Do we have any other alternative?
Because in my other pdf reports having more than 50 pages (in between 100-600). If i want do divide smaller chunks it will be the long process.
Thanks
Prasad Sagala

Xml- xslt- pdf

transformations of xml to pdf using xslt

Not sure what the question is, but the strategy I use is to write an XSLT that converts my XML into XSL:FO. XSL:FO (XSL Formatting Objects) is a W3C recommendation for generically defining layout in XML. Its syntax is very similar to CSS2 (except it uses XML attributes instead of inline CSS syntax). Once you have an XSL:FO document, it's trivial to convert to PDF using a library such as Apache FOP (http://xml.apache.org/fop/).
There is some XSL:FO information on that site, but another good resource is W3Schools (http://www.w3schools.com/xslfo/xslfo_reference.asp) and ZVON (http://www.zvon.org/xxl/xslfoReference/Output/).
There's also Jasper and iReport (a WYSIWYG editor for Jasper transformations) but it's a little more complicated and not as powerful.
Hope that helps,
- Jesse

OT: XML, XSL, & PDF

This isn't strictly a Forte question, but I thought that possibly someone
who was getting into Fusion and/or someone with similar thoughts had run
into some solutions.
We've been thinking recently about the idea of having reports in the
application output XML to express the content of the report and then using
XSL to map this into the viewable/printable format. This would open up the
option of multiple XSL maps for different purposes or audiences. The idea
would probably be to go XML --> PDF --> HTML or XML --> HTML --> PDF with
the second conversion being an automated one that did not have a
report-specific mapping. PDF would provide a printable report of high
quality which could be sent anywhere and printed on just about anything and
the HTML would provide a browser-viewable version which was readable
page-at-time with hypertext links to connect various parts of the report in
the fashion of Actuate.
Does anyone know of tools to do this kind of mapping?
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Lo mismo que te he dicho antes, optimiza primero las
im�genes y luego las
pasas a pdf (Pdf995).
Saludos,
Julio Barroso
"Paulina" <[email protected]> escribi�
en el mensaje
news:e7bmcc$lih$[email protected]..
| Gracias por la informacio,
| pero en el caso de que siga con la idea de usar PDF (el
cliente manda)...
| que resoluciones y pasos me aconsejais?
| Julio B. escribi�:
| > Cuando se trata de mostrar una noticia publicada en la
prensa y que ha
sido
| > escaneada para tal fin, lo mejor es usar una imagen
(jpg � gif) antes
que un
| > pdf, que siempre tendr� m�s peso que la
imagen original.
| >
| > Otra cosa ser�a si el texto de la noticia fuera
eso, texto, y no una
imagen,
| > en ese caso la opci�n m�s �ptima
ser�a el pdf (generado con Pdf995).
| >
| > Te recomiendo que una vez tengas la imagen en
Photoshop recortes todo lo
que
| > no sirva y la guardes como gif con la cantidad
m�nima de colores para
que se
| > pueda leer el texto. Acu�rdate de ajustar el
tama�o y la resoluci�n. As�
te
| > aseguras que la noticia tendr� el m�nimo
peso posible. Tambi�n puedes
probar
| > con jpg, pero para bajar el peso tendr�s
comprimir mucho, y al final se
| > pierde legibilidad en el texto.
| >
| > Saludos,
| >
| > Julio Barroso
| >
| > "Paulina" <[email protected]>
escribi� en el mensaje
| > news:e7bb88$80f$[email protected]..
| > | Buenos dias,
| > | necesito consejo.
| > | Un cliente me solicita tener un apartado en donde se
puedan ver las
| > | noticias que han publicado en prensa sobre su
empresa en PDF.
| > |
| > | Alguien me puede decir cual es el proceso mejor para
mantener buena
| > | calidad y poco peso? Estoy segura que hay alguna
combinacion
| > | idonea...pero no lo consigo.
| > |
| > | He probado escaneando desde Photoshop e imprimiendo
a Cute PDF...pero
me
| > | sale muy grande.
| > | espero vuestras sugerencias
| > |
| > | Gracias,
| > | Paulina
| >
| >

Extract embedded xml from PDF/A-3b (also creation)

Hello there,
in the context of a research project, we are currently trying to extract embedded xml from a PDF/A-3b document via code.
The project deals with establishing a new invoicing standard (Zugferd: ferd-net.de, only german). Invoices are expressed via xml, which is embedded in PDF/A.
What we are trying to archive is extraction of the xml via java code. For testing purposes, we are currently using an third party skd to extract the invoice-xml, by calling a .EXE file and then picking up the results in java.
I currently have only one valid example file that can be processed via this sdk. To get more data, i used the test version of acrobat pro to alter the embedded xml file. To be more specific, i deleted the embedded file, added a new xml file, and used preflight to make the PDF conform to /A-3b. Although the file seems to have the same properties as the original, it can no more be processed via the extraction sdk. Since messing around with acrobat does not seem to get me anywhere, i am now looking into extracting data from the pdf my self.
Is there any present implementation/library/solution for extracting data in a java context? The few third party tools i found are all based of a .net/windows native environment. I have heard rumors about Adobe giving out tools to extract embedded data from PDF/A?
How is it the other way around? Is it possible to embedd xml into a PDF via Java? Given there allready is PDF file which we can attach to.
I really appreciate reading and thanks for any help or input!
Greetings,
Florian

Hi Florian,
I would look for general purpose PDF libraries that can open a PDF and access data objects in it.
All in all it is not too difficult to get to the embedded XML, once you have a library that can access and read data structures/data objects inside a PDF file. Some understanding of the inner workings of PDF data structures will help you get the job done (e.g. read the section about embedded files in the PDF standard / ISO 32000-1, as well as the chapter about PDF syntax).
Olaf
Am 19 Aug 2013 um 13:19 schrieb xfrapp <[email protected]>:
Extract embedded xml from PDF/A-3b (also creation)
created by xfrapp in PDF Language and Specifications - View the full discussion
Hello there,
in the context of a research project, we are currently trying to extract embedded xml from a PDF/A-3b document via code.
The project deals with establishing a new invoicing standard (Zugferd: ferd-net.de, only german). Invoices are expressed via xml, which is embedded in PDF/A.
What we are trying to archive is extraction of the xml via java code. For testing purposes, we are currently using an third party skd to extract the invoice-xml, by calling a .EXE file and then picking up the results in java.
I currently have only one valid example file that can be processed via this sdk. To get more data, i used the test version of acrobat pro to alter the embedded xml file. To be more specific, i deleted the embedded file, added a new xml file, and used preflight to make the PDF conform to /A-3b. Although the file seems to have the same properties as the original, it can no more be processed via the extraction sdk. Since messing around with acrobat does not seem to get me anywhere, i am now looking into extracting data from the pdf my self.
Is there any present implementation/library/solution for extracting data in a java context? The few third party tools i found are all based of a .net/windows native environment. I have heard rumors about Adobe giving out tools to extract embedded data from PDF/A?
How is it the other way around? Is it possible to embedd xml into a PDF via Java? Given there allready is PDF file which we can attach to.
I really appreciate reading and thanks for any help or input!
Greetings,
Florian
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