XML Publisher data engine vs. switching output to XML in the Con.Program.

What is the difference between setting up templates using the data engine described in the 5.6 user's guide and creating a customer report and setting its output to XML?
Is it a matter of you being able to totally create your own XML and add atrributes to tags and such? Is this the only way to get data output from Oracle into an XML file? It's been a while, but i recall creating XML output on the fly with .Net pretty easily via an ASPX page.
Seems like alot of work to achieve this? Am I missing something?
If I wanted to have a JSP page where a user could use a form to query the database via IE, are these the API's i need to use for the returned data to come back as XML?
Thanks,
Jeremy

You should try posting your query in XML Publisher forum, which is now BI Publisher.

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XML Publisher report not printing excel output due to special characters

Hello,
I am trying to create a xml publisher report which should display the output in excel. But the program completes with a warning status and the output is displayed as XML instead of excel, with some errors "An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource " and i think these errors are due to the special characters(eg: city/province - A Coruña, Cáceres). If i give rownum < 10 in my query, where there are no such characters it works fine and i am getting an excel output.
Tried changing the XML encoding and it doesn't help (both mentioned below)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Do anyone have a solution for this
Thanks in advance
Edited by: user10317098 on Jan 16, 2012 10:58 AM

Hi,
Check this links that might help you..
https://forums.oracle.com/thread/1018488
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E10091_01/doc/bip.1013/e05000/toc.htm
Here the Exact solution from Oracle
In the XML PUBLISHER ADMINISTRATOR Resp..
Click the administration..
then Click HTML Output
Then in the Base Image URI Give the url of your application for example
http://Test.Test.com:8000/OA_MEDIA/
And then
Image File Directory give this as per your application setup
/u01/app/oracle/apps/apps_st/comn/java/classes/oracle/apps/media/
Thanks & Regards
Srikkanth.M

XML Publisher --Data Template-Help

Hi
we are using XML Publisher attached to R12 , we are using data template ( .XML file) in data definition .
we have a requirement for master details report. for that we have parent query and child query .the data coming to parent query should be the parameter to child query
Exp-- Parent Query-- select empno from emp
Child Query --select * from dept where empno=:p_empno (p_empno =empno from Parent query )
For this requirement we are creating a data template (.XML file) . we are successfully to write for the parent query, but we fails when come to child query. Please help us how it can be wrote in data template . You can send any example related to this issue.

This forum is noway related to XML Publisher. I had redirected you to the actual BI Publisher already once. You should post it there.

How to call the XML Publisher Report thro Standard PO Output for Comm.

Hi
We need to call our custom report(XML Publisher Report) from the standard PO Output for Communication Report.
There is a parameter(Purchase Order Layout) in PO Output for Communication in which we can see no. of standard reports. We want to add our custom report in that list so that when we will run this standard report by selecting our custom report for Purchase Order Layout parameter, we should get the output as per our Custom report.
Since PO Output for Communication is a Java Concurrent Program, we are not able to place our custom report in the list of Purchase Order layout Parameter.
Ram

Welcome to the forums !
Pl see if MOS Doc 305307.1 (How To Modify Print PO Report POXPOPDF With Custom Template) can help
HTH
Srini

XML Publisher Data Template Executable Options

Hello,
Can someone help me find some documentation on how to decipher what the Options parameter on the XDODTEXE executable is.
Someone has created a concurrent program, and set the options to : -Xss2048k -Xmx512m
Tried googling with no luck....anyone?
Thanks
S

ok...found the answer
http://cyberserf.com/category/oracle-applications/

Data Recover From Formatted Drive? What is the best program to use to get back Logic Projects and any other file type?

I was in the process of reorganising my hard drives so I could RAID them however I managed to corrupt one drive and had to format it which meant I lost all my Logic Files and some other files. I managed to save a lot of files (mainly video files) before I had to format the drive but I need a Data Recovery service that will not alter anything on the hard drive and will put all the formatted files (regardless of the type) back for me so I can get the rest of the ones I need.
Thanks in advance.

What about folders and such?
No. FS doesn't reconstruct folders. However, Data Rescue does, depending on how you use it. About the only thing in Data Rescue a Quick Scan ever seems to show you are files that are already live.
So that leaves you with a Deep Scan, or a Deleted Files scan. The first pass of a Deep Scan will attempt to retrieve folders and files, along with their original names. The second pass only looks for file patterns. Like recognizing a Photoshop .psd file. It will recover it, but give it a nonsense name. A Deleted Files scan only results in nonsense names of recognized file types; no folders.
What were you using File Salvage on? A hard drive?
Yes, though you can use it on a flash drive, or any other mounted drive.
At the moment it is estimating 289 hours remaining on a 1TB drive. Can it not go faster?
No, both of the software mentioned are slower than molasses in January. When you delete anything in Windows, its file table entry simply tagged as deleted. So to unerase them, the tag is removed. That's why it works to quickly and easily (assuming you haven't already overwritten the data to be recovered).
In OS X though, the whole idea of the underlying UNIX structure is all about security. It's not supposed to be easy to retrieve deleted items. When you delete items, their file table entries are erased. So the only way to find deleted items is to scour the entire drive for BOF (Beginning Of File) markers that don't have a matching starting block to anything that is in the file table.
Another question, half the drive was empty. Will it fly over that empty space or will it sieve through it incase there was some files stored on it?
If you use the Expert mode is FS, you can choose to do that:

XML Publisher Report not generating the PDF output.

Hi,
I am trying to develop a XML Publisher Report in R12 Vision Instance.
I have developed the rdf report and concurrent program with XML as output format. Ran the concurrent program and I got the XML output. Based on XML output I have created the rtf template. Using both the template and xml output I have created in Data Definition and Template in XML Publisher Administrator Responsibility. Now I am comming to the concurrent program and running the program, here instead of generating the PDF output it is generating again the XML output and concurrent program completing with warning status.
When I am trying to do the same in 11i Vision Instance, Concurrent Program completing with normal status and when trying to view the output it is saying "Unable to Publish output for the Processed Request".
Kindly please help me out in this issue.
Thanks,
Manasa.

Hi Mahesh,
Here the concurrent programs are not erroring out. It is completing with Warning status and when we click on View Output the output is coming in XML format instead of PDF, this is in R12 Vision Instance.
In 11i Vision Instance, concurrent program is completing with Normal Status but when we click on View Output it is saying "Unable to Publish output for specified request".
Thanks,
Manasa.

XML Publisher report default output in Excel format.

Hi,
We have defined one concurrent program whose output format is text, this concurrent program executable is PL/SQL and in this PL/SQL program we are generating XML data and displaying XML using below fnd_request.
l_conc_id := FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST('GMP','GMPPDROP','', '',FALSE,
p_sequence_num,chr(0),'','','','','','','','','','','',
We have also defined template for this.
Using below fnd_request we are choosing template and data is getting generated in PDF format. Now our requirement is to display the output by default in Excel format.
FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST('XDO','XDOREPPB','', '',FALSE,'',
l_conc_id,554,G_comb_pdr_temp,
G_comb_pdr_locale,'Y','RTF','',scale_report,'','','','','',
When i saw XML Report Publisher concurrent program, there is one parameter for Output Format and i tried passing 'Excel'/EXCEL/excel to this parameter but output is still coming in PDF format.
FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST('XDO','XDOREPPB','', '',FALSE,'',
l_conc_id,554,G_comb_pdr_temp,
G_comb_pdr_locale,'Y','RTF','Excel',scale_report,'','','','','',
I have also tried giving Default Output to EXCEL in template definition but this is also not working.
Your valuable suggestions highly appreciated.
Thanks
Vijay

Hi;
What is EBS version? Please see below which could be helpful for your issue:
Changing Output Format to RTF or Excel in XML Publisher Request Does Not Display Output Correctly [ID 404512.1]
Cannot View BI Publisher (formerly XML Publisher) Report Output In Excel Format or XHTML [ID 359875.1
How is Default Output Type Determined for Reports Submitted Using XML [ID 888972.1]
Also see:
XML PUBLISHER report in Excel out put problem
XML PUBLISHER report in Excel out put problem
Regard
Helios

XML Publisher - OPP log: Output file was found but is zero sized - Deleted

Hi,
I have created one Main template and sub-template is called from it. I am working with Oracle Apps version 12.1.1. XML Source file gets created using rdf file attached to the concurrent program. Now after registering main template with the required concurrent program when i tried to execute it "View Output" button shows XML souce data instead of PDF report which i have called using main template. Log file was showing following error,
Executing request completion options...
Output file size:
33140
------------- 1) PUBLISH -------------
Beginning post-processing of request 3739501 on node ORAAPP13 at 09-AUG-2011 22:16:38.
Post-processing of request 3739501 failed at 09-AUG-2011 22:16:51 with the error message:
One or more post-processing actions failed. Consult the OPP service log for details.
------------- 2) PRINT   -------------
Not printing the output of this request because post-processing failed.
Finished executing request completion options.
And the OPP service log has following error, Can anyone guide me to solve this error.
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Template app: XXAV
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Territory: US
Output type: PDF
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     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.invokeNewXSLStylesheet(XSLT10gR1.java:611)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.transform(XSLT10gR1.java:239)
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     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(FOUtility.java:212)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.FOProcessor.createFO(FOProcessor.java:1665)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.FOProcessor.generate(FOProcessor.java:975)
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     at oracle.apps.xdo.oa.schema.server.TemplateHelper.processTemplate(TemplateHelper.java:3459)
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     at oracle.apps.fnd.cp.opp.OPPRequestThread.run(OPPRequestThread.java:176)
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     at java.text.DecimalFormat.format(DecimalFormat.java:608)
     at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.zeroPaddingNumber(SimpleDateFormat.java:1203)
     at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.subFormat(SimpleDateFormat.java:1142)
     at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(SimpleDateFormat.java:899)
     at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(SimpleDateFormat.java:869)
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     at oracle.apps.fnd.security.DBConnObj.setBorrowingThread(DBConnObj.java:973)
     at oracle.apps.fnd.common.Pool.costBasedSelection(Pool.java:1885)
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     at oracle.apps.fnd.common.Pool.borrowObject(Pool.java:950)
     at oracle.apps.fnd.security.DBConnObjPool.borrowObject(DBConnObjPool.java:584)
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Regards,
Priyanka

And metalink note 1100253.1 states that this issue (java.lang.StackOverflowError) might be caused by a too large set of data to be sorted in the layout file. Recommendation is to removed the sort from the layout file and instead sort the data already in the data definition.
regards,
David.

Using XML Publisher with plsql package data source?

Hi,
I have a html gantt chart which i create using a plsql package and the use of the htp.p procedure for output to a webpage.
I want to be able to print this to PDF and was hoping the XML Publisher may be an option for doing this. The datasource for this however seems to be a sql query or XML feed.
Can anyone provide any suggestions on this??

With a Pipelined Table Function you can use a function in your FROM-clause (so you'll have a normal SELECT, but in the background the data comes from a PL/SQL-function):
SELECT * FROM TABLE( <function_name> )
Look here:
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:30404463030437
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14261/tuning.htm#sthref2335

XML Publisher Loading data error "Run-Time Error '76' Path Not Found"

Hi,
I am trying to preview the PDF output in the XML Publisher Desktop Application.
I am able to LOAD the data successfully.
But whenever we try to preview the output, we are getting an error saying "Run-Time Error '76' Path Not Found".
I am running in Vista OS and MS Office 2007.
What to be done after this? Do I place the .xml and .xsd in Temp folder?
Kindly pls help me out in this. It would be really a very great.
Thanks & Regards,
Santhoshkumar.M
Edited by: 882342 on Aug 31, 2011 3:24 AM

You must give your user full control to C:\program files\Oracle i.e. the folder where your BI Publisher or XML Publisher Desktop is installed, see http://boardreader.com/thread/xml_publisher_error_Run_Time_Error_76_Pa_lsptXmonb.html

Xml publisher enterprise!!! create rtf file dynamically with load xml data

i am new to xml publisher enterprise , i want a solution for this question ...
i want create rtf file dynamically with loading xml data....means i wrote a program in jsp where the the output in xml file simultaneously create rtf file..but i enable load the xml data in rtf file but when i goto rtf file from where data in that load xml then it genrate the columns..but i want in dynamiclly to load the data will you please guide me ......

Hi Atiq
Im not quite clear on the requirement here:
1. Do you just want to be able to extract the data and apply a template to the XML data from your jdp and render output?
If so then you can use the XMLP APIs ... the are in the user guide. Particularly:
RTFProcessor - converts RTF template to XSLFO stylesheet
FOProcessor - takes, XML data, XSLFO stylesheet and output format and generates the required output.
2. Do you want a template that will accept any data and just format it into rows and columns ? This can be written but your XML structure is going to have to be static, the data of course can be dynamic.
Regards, Tim

XML Publisher Report EXCEL output Huge stored as Web Pages

Hello
I have a XML Publisher Report which generates EXCEL output and the output file size is huge.
What I notice that it is stored as Web Pages *.htm; *.html (Save as Type) in Excel this is the reason it is huge.
If I save as Microsoft Office Excel Workbook *.xls it Reduce the size.
I don't know how to save as ".xls" through XML Publisher using PL/SQL.
Any body knows? please Help..
XML Publisher Template Builder for WORD
Version 5.6 Build 45
PATCH        BUG_NUMBER
XDO.H     *3263588*
4.5.0     *3554613*
5.0.0     *3822219*
5.5.0     *4206181*
5.0.1     *4236958*
5.6.0     *4561451*
5.6.1     *4905678*
5.6.2     *5097966*
5.6.3     *5472959*
Thanks.

Hi Vetsrini,
We're on 10.1.3.4.1 and siebel 8.1.1.3 and when trying to open a report from within siebel in the output format EXCEL (selected from the parameter applet), it just opens the document in the browser.
Is there a way to get it to open directly in Excel? I guess the reason is the file extension*.EXCEL, how could we get the extension to be in excel format (xls)?
We don't want our users to have to do this themself.
Regards,
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Error in outputting xml formatted data

Hello,
I'm trying to output xml formatted data using apex.
At about 70% into the formatted output I get this in the browser:
<descript>punct= & > < /,() &</descript>
</row>
- <row The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
Only one top level element is allowed in an XML document. Error processing resource 'http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=158...
<script language="JavaScript1.1" type="text/javascript">
-^
m">>
<DIVI have a 600 row table (dml below) with identical string in each row of the descript column. (I put in some special characters just to push it through the escape function for html. It is displaying the text correctly.)
The page has one report region (plsql below).
The page template is stripped down.
My local results are identical to the otn hosted workspace.
I did dump the table in xml format and displayed the dump file in browser without a problem, so I'm missing something in the code.
Thank you.
Albert
On OTN webspace, go to http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=15866:1:1291425545573680200:::::
plsql
declare
xdescript varchar2(4000);
    begin
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    -- htp.p('<?xml version="1.0"?>');
    htp.p('<rowset>');
    begin
        for item in
        (select descript,cid from receipts order by cid)
        loop
        htp.p ('<row>');
        xdescript := htf.escape_sc(item.descript);
        htp.p('<cid>' || item.cid || '</cid>');
        htp.p('<descript>'|| xdescript || '</descript>');
        htp.p('</row>');
        end loop;
    end;
    htp.p ('</rowset>');
end;
dml
CREATE TABLE "RECEIPTS"
   (     "CID" NUMBER,
     "AMOUNT" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE,
     "CLEARED" DATE,
     "DESCRIPT" VARCHAR2(80),
     "DATEENTERED" DATE DEFAULT SYSTIMESTAMP,
     "CHECKNBR" NUMBER,
     "CLEARSEQ" NUMBER DEFAULT 0,
      CONSTRAINT "RECEIPTS_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("CID") ENABLE
CREATE SEQUENCE   "RECEIPTS_SEQ" MINVALUE 1 MAXVALUE 999999999999999999999999999
INCREMENT BY 1 START WITH 4319 CACHE 20 NOORDER NOCYCLE
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER "BI_RECEIPTS"
BEFORE INSERT ON "RECEIPTS"
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
    SELECT "RECEIPTS_SEQ".NEXTVAL INTO :NEW.CID FROM DUAL;
END;
ALTER TRIGGER "BI_RECEIPTS" ENABLE
/

May be it helps you. I use SQL/XML and APEX Application Process to generate XML succesfully
Here is the result:
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=9774:101:0:APPLICATION_PROCESS=RSSNEWEVENTS
and here is the Process Text source:
declare
a clob;
begin
owa_util.mime_header( ccontent_type => 'text/xml', bclose_header => TRUE, ccharset => 'utf-8');
htp.prn('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>');
select
XMLTYPE.getStringVal(
XMLElement("rss",
XMLAttributes('2.0' as version),
XMLElement("channel",
XMLConcat(
XMLElement("title",'iActiveLife - novinky'),
XMLElement("link",'http://www.iactivelife.cz/'),
XMLElement("description",'iActiveLife - Zajímavý ivot snadněji'),
XMLElement("language",'cs'),
XMLElement("pubdate",''),
XMLAgg(
XMLElement("item",
XMLConcat(
XMLElement("title",event_name),
XMLElement("link",'http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=' || v('APP_ID') || ':37:' || v('SESSION') || '::NO::P37_EVENT_ID:' || event_id),
XMLElement("description",'')
) into a
from (
select event_id,event_name,issue_date, last_update_order
from (
select events.event_id, events.event_name, events.issue_date, rank () over (order by events.issue_date desc) as last_update_order
from events
where exists ( select * from opportunities where events.event_id=opportunities.event_id and opportunities.user_id is not null)
order by events.issue_date desc)
where last_update_order<=10
htp.prn(a);
end;

Scratch 22: Creating XML Publisher report from scratch in eBS

Problem:
How to build a XML Publisher (XMLP) report in eBS from scratch. Thus NOT adapting or converting an existing report.
Context:
I have an eBS R12 Vision instance up and running where I want to learn building XMLP reports.
This is what all tutorials I can find tell me to do:
Most reports apparently consist of a layout template e.g. TEST.rtf and a data template e.g. TEST.xml. Now in order to generate a new report layout I am supposed to take existing output in XML format and (using ‘Load Data’ function in Template Builder plugin in Word) specify in my layout template where and how I want the actual data to pop up. So far so good.
But now I want to build the data template from scratch and use it combined with a layout template. So I build the data template but can’t use that for building the layout template. For that I need output, for which I need a layout template.....
Sounds like Catch 22 to me. How do I break this?
1. Can I generate an XML-output file from the XML Data Template alone?
2. Can I build my (RTF) layout template directly based upon the XML Data Template?
3. Or have I completely lost the plot?
Oh yes, dunno the first thing about Java and do not have My Oracle Support..
Edited by: rjvencken on Jul 5, 2012 10:39 AM
Edited by: rjvencken on Jul 5, 2012 10:51 AM

1. Can I generate an XML-output file from the XML Data Template alone?
create data definition with your data template-> create concurrent -> output as xml -> run -> view output and your xml
I thought the XDODTEXE engine would pick up the (Layout) Template through concurrent program definition CPD short name which in turn points to the Data Definition (and thus Data Template). So does your answer mean I can call straight from CPD to Data Definition? I tried registering my Data Template in the Template Tab but it will not take XML as a type.2. Can I build my (RTF) layout template directly based upon the XML Data Template?
if you want to use xml publisher desktop then you need xml (with data, not definition)
So that's not an option I understand. Weird cuz I'd expect this to be technically easier.btw you can create your layout (rtf) without xml (data) and without data template (xml with select statement)
create filed and past tag definition
Yes but in that case I'd have an empty report. How would that help me?bouble click on filed:
"Text Form Field Options" -> "Add Help Text ..." -> "Status Bar" (tab) -> "Type your own:"
if you use bi publisher desktop plugin
bouble click on filed:
"BI Publisher Properties" -> "Advanced" -> "Code"
or switch to Word Properties
"BI Publisher Properties" -> "Word Properties" and use above path
3. Or have I completely lost the plot?
may be ;)

XML Publisher data engine vs. switching output to XML in the Con.Program.

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