Xml script

Hi all
would someone beable to help with xml external file script
for creating an mp3 player. I found some tutorials on how to do so
much but am nowlost on how to do the remaining buttons. So far I've
created a play/pause toggle button and a next button. What I'm
tring to do now is finish off the conrols by adding the back, stop,
play and loop buttons to my controller.
within the xml document, mp3player.as is all the script,
exlplaining how it loads the tracks etc,.
would anyone beable to help/show me the code for the xml
script as I'm not very good with xml?
heres the example page of what I'm trying to do, and there is
also a link so you can download the source files.
http://www.paragon360.com/example01/example01.html
any help would greatfully appreciated
cheers
noddy

There are two tutorials for an MP3 player at
www.gotoAndLearn.com that you
might find helpful.
"noddy man" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:enm050$aot$[email protected]..
> Hi all
>
> would someone beable to help with xml external file
script for creating an
> mp3
> player. I found some tutorials on how to do so much but
am nowlost on how
> to
> do the remaining buttons. So far I've created a
play/pause toggle button
> and a
> next button. What I'm tring to do now is finish off the
conrols by adding
> the
> back, stop, play and loop buttons to my controller.
>
> within the xml document, mp3player.as is all the script,
exlplaining how
> it
> loads the tracks etc,.
> would anyone beable to help/show me the code for the xml
script as I'm not
> very good with xml?
>
> heres the example page of what I'm trying to do, and
there is also a link
> so
> you can download the source files.
>
>
http://www.paragon360.com/example01/example01.html
>
> any help would greatfully appreciated
>
> cheers
> noddy
>

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I posted this originally in the Acrobat Windows forums but was told I might have more luck here, so here goes:
I am desperately trying to find a tool (preferably open source but commercial is fine also) that will sit on top of a PDF and allow me to query it's text for content and formatting (I don't care about images). I have found some tools that get me part of the way there, but nothing that seems to provide an end-to-end solution but is quite lightweight. My main question is WHY are there so many tools that go from PDF to RTF, and many tools that go from RTF to XML, but NONE that I can find that go PDF to XML.
To clarify, by formatting I simply mean whether a line/block of text is bold/italic, and its font size. I am not concerned with exact position on the page. The background is that I will be searching PDFs and assigning importance to whether text is a heading/bodytext etc. We already have a search tool in place so implementing a pure PDF search engine is not an option. I need a lightweight tool that simply allows me to either make calls directly to the PDF OR converts to XML which I can parse.
Some tools I have tried:
1) PDFBox (Java Library) - Allows the extraction of text content easily, but doesn't seem to have good support for formatting.
2) JPedal (Java Library) - Allows extraction of text content easily, and supports formatting IF XML structured data is in the PDF (not the case for my data).
3) Nitro PDF (Tool) + RTF to XML (script) - This works quite nicely and shows that PDF to XML is possible, but why do I have to use 2 tools? Also, these are not libraries I can integrate into my app.
4) iText (Java Library) - Seems great at creating PDFs but poor at extracting content.
I don't really expect someone to give me a perfect solution (although that would be nice!).
Instead, what I'd like to know is WHY tools support PDF to RTF/Word/whatever retaining formatting, and other tools support RTF to XML with the formatting information retained. What is it about PDF and RTF/Word that makes it feasible to convert that way, but not to XML. Also, as I found in 3) above, it is perfectly feasible to end up as XML from PDF, so why do no tools support this reliably!
Many thanks for any advice from PDF gurus.

XML doesn't mean anything - it's just a generic concept for structuring
information. You need a specific GRAMMAR of XML to mean anything. So what
grammar would you use? Something standard? Make up your own?
However, there are a number of commercial and open source products that can
convert PDF to various XML grammars - SVG, ABW, and various custom grammars.
But the other thing you need to understand is that most PDF files do not
have any structure associated with them (as you saw when using JPEDAL). As
such, any concepts of paragraphs/sections/tables/etc. Are WILD GUESSES by
the software in question.

How to Trigger / execute a rule directly from an XML form?

I am in the process of customizing User Forms, and I would like to implement a trigger (if that's the right name for it) in the XML script, which will execute a Rule (or some code) that will result in an email being sent.
For example, the following simple script (selection from a dropdown menu) :
*<Field name='orderlunch'>*
*<Display class='Select' action='true'>*
*<Property name='title' value='Order Lunch'/>*
*<Property name='allowedValues'>*
*<List>*
*<String>- Please Select -</String>*
*<String>Yes</String>*
*<String>No</String>*
*</List>*
*</Property>*
*</Display>*
*</Field>*
A small XML code, to indicate an order for lunch.
naturally, if the user selects "No", then nothing happens.
But, if he selects "Yes", then I would like to automatically send an Email Notification to the appropriate person, notifying him that lunch has been ordered. (of course, I would need to indicate such things as WHO ordered the lunch, WHEN, etc, etc. But, I will get into that later)
Does anyone know how this can be done?
(a) Could I insert the trigger/condition/whatever right into the main XML script itself?
Or
(b) should I write a code which will call on/invoke a separate Rule, which will subsequently send the email?
If (b) is the right answer, then how would I go about creating such a Rule, and linking it to the main XML script?

In your Wf or subprocess call the activity notify .testemaillist contains the list of users for whom the mail need to be sent .
<Activity id='1' name='Notify'>
<Action id='0' process='Notify'>
<Iterate for='email' in='testEmaillist'/>
<Argument name='template' value='emailtemplatename'/>
<Argument name='to' value='$(email)'/>
</Action>
</Activity>
I hope this may help you

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