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

Similar Messages

How can I create a dynamic XML driven PDF Portfolio?

I have built an XML application for which I maintain a library of individual PDF page "templates" used to assemble large (1000+ pages) PDF documents. The page templates are saved as PDFs without page numbers as they can be reused anywhere in any manual, the page numbers are applied during the document assembly process. I am now attempting to implement an update process, in which one template change can impact dozens of large documents. I am therefore looking at moving away from creating these large PDF documents and creating something more along the lines of a Package, Portfolio or other solution in which document pages/templates in the library are linked to rather than combined, so that changes across multiple large documents can be done quickly and transparently to the user. I am sure there is a solution using an Adobe spec like Portfolio or XDP, I just need a nudge down the right path, as nothing in what I've read explicitly states that these technologies can be used for this purpose. I would prefer to stay within technologies I am comfortable with to create/modify the necessary files, whcih are XML/XSLT and ANT. I would also like to know if it's possible to add page numbers on the footer of each page in the Portfolio without modifying the template, and if the resulting Portfolio can be saved as a normal PDF or printed with the dynamic page numbers included.
I know this might be a tall order but if anyone can help clarify what's possible with existing Adobe technologies it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Keith

Indeed - PDF Portfolios are a collection of static files attached to a one-page cover sheet, you cannot have references to externally-stored documents.
You can replace individual files in a Portfolio (by adding a file of the same name) but nothing happens automatically, and the file when added to the Portfolio will have no idea about where it originally came from. There's no concept of "check for updates".

XML TO PDF printing

Hi,
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.*;
import org.apache.avalon.framework.*;
import org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.*;
import org.apache.fop.apps.*;
* This class converts an XML file to PDF using JAXP (XSLT) and FOP (XSL-FO).
* @author
public class XmlToPdf {
private static final String BASE_DIR = "./test/";
private static final String FILE = "test";
* Converts an XML file to a PDF file using JAXP and FOP.
* @param xmlFile The XML file
* @param xslFile The XSLT stylesheet file
* @param pdfFile The output PDF file
* @throws IOException In case of an I/O problem
* @throws FOPException In case of a FOP problem
* @throws TransformerException In case of a XSL transformation problem
public void convertXML2PDF(File xmlFile, File xsltFile, File pdfFile)
throws IOException, FOPException, TransformerException {
//Construct driver
Driver driver = new Driver();
//Setup logger
Logger logger = new ConsoleLogger(ConsoleLogger.LEVEL_INFO);
driver.setLogger(logger);
//Setup Renderer (output format)
driver.setRenderer(Driver.RENDER_PDF);
//Setup output
OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(pdfFile);
out = new BufferedOutputStream(out);
try {
driver.setOutputStream(out);
//Setup XSLT
TransformerFactory myFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer myTransformer = myFactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(xsltFile));
//Setup input for XSLT transformation
Source src = new StreamSource(xmlFile);
//The generated FO (resulting SAX events) must be sent to FOP
Result res = new SAXResult(driver.getContentHandler());
//Start XSLT transformation and FOP processing
myTransformer.transform(src, res);
} finally {
out.flush();
out.close();
* Main method.
* @param args command-line arguments
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
System.out.println("Starting XML TO PDF Transformation...\n");
//Base Directory...
File baseDir = new File(BASE_DIR);
//Input and output files...
File xmlFile = new File(baseDir, FILE+".xml");
File xsltFile = new File(baseDir, FILE+".xsl");
File pdfFile = new File(baseDir, FILE+".pdf");
System.out.println("Input: XML (" + xmlFile + ")");
System.out.println("XSL Stylesheet: " + xsltFile);
System.out.println("Output: PDF (" + pdfFile + ")");
System.out.println();
System.out.println("Transforming...");
XmlToPdf app = new XmlToPdf();
// Do the transformation...
app.convertXML2PDF(xmlFile, xsltFile, pdfFile);
System.out.println();
System.out.println("The pdf was created succesfully !\n");
} catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println(e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
System.exit(-1);

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.
this is the XML File that i use
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<changelog>
     <entry>
          <date>2002-12-09</date>
          <time>14:21</time>
          <author><![CDATA[jmc]]></author>
          <file>
               <name>develop/web/vds-rel1/c/su_rgd0_c.jsp</name>
               <revision>1.9</revision>
               <prevrevision>1.4</prevrevision>
          </file>
          <msg><![CDATA[moved cancel button into seperate for so it doesn't invoke js validation]]></msg>
     </entry>
     <entry>
          <date>2002-12-09</date>
          <time>13:41</time>
          <author><![CDATA[jmc]]></author>
          <file>
               <name>develop/web/vds-rel1/c/su_pm0_c.jsp</name>
               <revision>1.18</revision>
               <prevrevision>1.124</prevrevision>
          </file>
          <msg><![CDATA[moved << and >> to the correct column]]></msg>
     </entry>
</changelog>
and this is the XSL that i use
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'
version='1.0'>
<xsl:param name="title"/>
<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"/>
<xsl:template match="*">
<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"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</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"/>
</ul>
</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>
<xsl:choose>
<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>
</xsl:when>
<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>
</xsl:otherwise>
</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>
Thank you in advance for any help.

XML + XSLT - Retaining LF's in output

Hi
I am using FOP to process an XML file to a PDF using a XSLT. The
description column can have LF characters in it, which currently are
getting filtered out. I have converted teh LF's to the escape codes,
but this has had no effect (I do something similar with the greater
than symbol and that works). How do I go about retaining them. This
has been driving me around the bend for ages. Some guidence in this
would be most appreciated.
Below is some sample code illustrating the issue. The second row is
supposed to span multiple lines in the text cell.
------------- XML --------------------------------
<SERVERS>
<SERVER>
<NAME>SERV1.DOMAIN.COM</NAME>
<DESCRIPTION>This description does not have any LF's in the
text</DESCRIPTION>
</SERVER>
<SERVER>
<NAME>SERV2.DOMAIN.COM</NAME>
<DESCRIPTION>This is intended to be a line with a LF between here
and here and another LF between here
and here and another
LF between here
and here</DESCRIPTION>
</SERVER>
</SERVERS>
------------- XSLT -------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.1"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java"
exclude-result-prefixes="java">

<xsl:template match="SERVERS">
<xsl:variable name="CR" select="'
'"/>
<xsl:variable name="LF" select="'
'"/>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
xmlns:fox="http://xml.apache.org/fop/extensions">
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="A4-L" page-width="297mm"
page-height="210mm" margin-top="10mm" margin-bottom="10mm"
margin-left="10mm" margin-right="10mm">
<fo:region-body margin="10mm"/>
<fo:region-before extent="20mm"/>
<fo:region-after extent="10mm"/>
<fo:region-start extent="10mm"/>
<fo:region-end extent="10mm"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="A4-L">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block>
<fo:table table-layout="fixed" border-color="rgb(0,0,0)"
border-style="solid" border-width="1pt">
<fo:table-column column-width="40mm"/>
<fo:table-column column-width="200mm"/>
<fo:table-header background-color="rgb(214,214,214)"
font-size="8pt" font-weight="bold" text-align="center">
<fo:table-row text-align="center" font-size="8pt">
<fo:table-cell border-color="rgb(0,0,0)"
border-style="solid"
border-width="1pt"><fo:block>Server</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell border-color="rgb(0,0,0)"
border-style="solid"
border-width="1pt"><fo:block>Description</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</fo:table-header>
<fo:table-body>
<xsl:for-each select="SERVER">
<fo:table-row text-align="center" font-size="8pt">
<fo:table-cell border-color="rgb(0,0,0)"
border-style="solid" border-width="1pt">
<fo:block vertical-align="middle">
<xsl:value-of select="NAME"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell border-color="rgb(0,0,0)"
border-style="solid" border-width="1pt">
<fo:block vertical-align="middle">
<xsl:value-of select="DESCRIPTION"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</xsl:for-each>
</fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I know this isn't an oracle issue, but hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks for your help.
Nick.

Hi
Thanks for your response it was very useful.
The attribute linefeed-treatment on its own didn't solve the problem, and another link I found suggested that may be a bug. However making use of the attribute white-space-collapse did seem to do what I wanted!
So it loks like the solution is to use one bug to fix another :) I'm sure that can't be good and is asking for problems later on. But for now it will do.
Many thanks for your guidance.
Nick.

On XML, XSLT, FO usage

Hi,
Any links... help...documents... tutorials... samples on usage of XML, XSLT, FO engine, for pdf generation.
Ravishankar Swamy

Hi,
This Technical Note is very interesting to start point
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/notes/technote_vohra_fop.html
Follow good references from AMIS
http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1102
http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1182
Best regards

Converting from PDF directly to Java Objects/XML (and PDF format questions)

Hi,
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.

Barcode printing in XML report PDF output

Hi All,
I want to print barcode of invoice number / purchase order number in the XML report PDF output.
Anyone please suggest me with your ideas and experience.

Hi Bogdan,
The steps mentioned in the doc is what i did in order.
I couldn't understand the step # 13 & 14.
Log in as XML Publisher Administrator
Navigate to Administration --> Font Files --> Create Font File
Available fields are Font Name and File
--> for Font Name, choose any descriptive name
--> file will browse your PC to locate the font file
Navigate to Font Mappings -->Create Font Mapping Set
Mapping name is the name you will give to a set of fonts.
Mapping code is the internal name you will give to this set
Type: 'PDF Form' for PDF templates. 'FO to PDF' for all other template types.
Create Font Mapping (this allows you to add fonts to a set)
Font Family is the exact same name you see in MS Word under Font. If you don't use the same name the font will not be picked up at runtime.
Style and weight must also match how you use the font in the RTF or PDF layout template. Normal and Normal are good defaults.
Language and Territory should remain blank (NULL) unless you have a strong business reason, as these fields can cause the font not to be picked up at runtime.
Navigate to Configuration General -> FO Processing -->Font Mapping Set. This can also be done at Data Definition and Template level, via the corresponding Edit Configuration button on those pages. The hierarchy is Site-> Data Def -> Template.
Select your new mapping set.
Make sure the font is not referenced under File --> Properties --> Custom in the RTF template file.
Under General, set a Temporary Directory. The font will be stored under a /fonts directory at runtime, initially created the first time the font is used.
Upload a template that uses your special font and test using preview or by submitting a concurrent request.

HELP: JSP + XML + XSLT = HTML?

Hello, all.
I am trying out Weblogic 6 and I am trying to get the JSP + XML + XSLT =>
HTML chain working.
I am coming from using Orion and SAXON.. and in that situation I had a JSP
that contained XML tags... they were filled in at runtime and then using
Servlet-Chaining was passed along to the SAXON XSLT Processer. SAXON checked
for the inline XSL specified and then used that to transform the document
into HTML.
It worked well, but there were some other features missing/not documented
that we now need.
With Weblogic I am trying to use the XSLT Tag Library that comes with the
distribution, but it seems to be very finicky. I followed the directions and
I got it to do a sort of roundabout transformation. But it doesn't seem to
work quite right.
The best I can get is the following:
I have an 'xslt' directory url-pattern-mapped to xslt.jsp (as instructed)...
but can't figure out how to specify the xsl file on-the-fly... that is, if I
don't hard-code the XSL file in the x:xslt element in the xslt.jsp it
complains about some XML file not having a root element.
Ideal situation:
1. I have a JSP that includes XML elements.
2. It is filled from a database at runtime and specifys (using a PI) what
XSL stylesheet it is to be processed with.
3. Somehow (fingers crossed) the XML is processed and transformed into HTML
by the appropriate XSL file.
I think I am mostly stuck moving between steps 2 and 3.
Can anyone give me some hints? Are there some Weblogic specific
elements/tags that I have to include in the XML file that Weblogic will
catch and re-direct to the XSL Parser?
Please, anyone, if you have some information, I would much appreciate it.
Dylan Parker
PS - I apologize for the cross-post, I hope it doesn't cause too much
traffic.

Craig,
I've since discovered how to do it with the WL Taglibrary... and have
moved on =)
It has to do with the EXTREMELY BADLY documented x:xml tag that can
appear within the x:xslt tag body...
So the WL Tag Library allows something like the following.
(Please note, angled brackets are omitted in this post to prevent html
parsing)
[x:xslt stylesheet="sheet.xsl"]
[x:xml]
Here is the XML to run the sheet on.
This should have all relevant XML syntax: the PIs, the doctype,
root elements etc...
[x:xml]
[x:xslt]
And that DOES work. But not very well. WL, a little prematurely
incorporated versions 1.2 of Xerces and Xalan in their product -- and
these versions have some irritating bugs.
Also -- There tag library doesn't copy the source XML across as UTF-8
.. so a lot of the Japanese I have embedded there (from a DB) gets
mangled somewhere in their code...
AND -- If you hammer a little bit on an JSP/XML that uses the WL Tag
Library (eg clicking refresh lots of times in IE)... I get huge
amounts of irritating exceptions appearing in the log files.
NullPointerExceptions
XSL Parsing Exceptions
XML Parsing Exceptions
but completely unpredictably...
In my eyes.. the WL XML/XSL Tag Library using the incorporated and
untouchable Xalan and Xerces (v1.2) is virtually unusable.
What a pain.
BUT! Apache offers a similar OPEN SOURCE XSL Tag Library available
here:
http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/xsl-doc/intro.html
And it uses the standard, non-weblogic-incorporated, Xerces and Xalan
(which means you can provide whatever version you want).. and it works
impressively well.
It has almost identical performance as the WL Taglib, and without all
of the bizarre exceptions being thrown.
And it does proper passing of the character encoding type!
If only the taglib did caching though =(
The performance hit over pure JSP is huge. Almost two orders of
magnitude. On my desktop box I can get around 500Requests/Sec if I am
returning HTML direct from a JSP... while if I produce XML that gets
processed by XSL into HTML the Requests/Sec drops to 5!!!!
Caching. Caching. And more Caching. A lot of DiskIO is going on with
the XML/XSL/XHTML chain of events.
I hope this helps!
I'd be curious as to what you find out as well.
Dylan Parker
On 5 Mar 2001 07:20:00 -0800, "Craig Macha"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
Yep, I feel Dylan's pain.
I am trying to accomplish the same thing. A JSP page generating
dynamic XML content and then utilizing an XSLT stylesheet to transform
all the content into XHTML.
Does anyone have some examples that show exactly how to accomplish
this? Can I do this with WLS and the XML taglib that comes with
it? Or do I have to move on to something like Cocoon to get this
capability?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Craig Macha
"Dylan Parker" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello, all.
I am trying out Weblogic 6 and I am trying to get the
JSP + XML + XSLT =>
HTML chain working.
I am coming from using Orion and SAXON.. and in that situation
I had a JSP
that contained XML tags... they were filled in at runtime
and then using
Servlet-Chaining was passed along to the SAXON XSLT Processer.
SAXON checked
for the inline XSL specified and then used that to transform
the document
into HTML.
It worked well, but there were some other features missing/not
documented
that we now need.
With Weblogic I am trying to use the XSLT Tag Library
that comes with the
distribution, but it seems to be very finicky. I followed
the directions and
I got it to do a sort of roundabout transformation. But
it doesn't seem to
work quite right.
The best I can get is the following:
I have an 'xslt' directory url-pattern-mapped to xslt.jsp
(as instructed)...
but can't figure out how to specify the xsl file on-the-fly...
that is, if I
don't hard-code the XSL file in the x:xslt element in
the xslt.jsp it
complains about some XML file not having a root element.
Ideal situation:
1. I have a JSP that includes XML elements.
2. It is filled from a database at runtime and specifys
(using a PI) what
XSL stylesheet it is to be processed with.
3. Somehow (fingers crossed) the XML is processed and
transformed into HTML
by the appropriate XSL file.
I think I am mostly stuck moving between steps 2 and 3.
Can anyone give me some hints? Are there some Weblogic
specific
elements/tags that I have to include in the XML file that
Weblogic will
catch and re-direct to the XSL Parser?
Please, anyone, if you have some information, I would
much appreciate it.
Dylan Parker
PS - I apologize for the cross-post, I hope it doesn't
cause too much
traffic.

XML mapping, PDF output

Hi!
I am working with the latest JDeveloper release. Does JDeveloper have a tool to create custom layouts from xml data and
print(output) the results as a pdf file?

I do not think there is something in JDeveloper. XSL-FO is what you would use for converting from XML to PDF, you will find a good tutorial here:
http://www.w3schools.com/xslfo/default.asp
Apache FOP ( http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ ) is a free implementation of an XSL-FO engine.
If you want also a visual tool to avoid having to create your XSLFO file manually, you can look at some XSL-FO which are available, one of them is http://www.java4less.com/fopdesigner/fodesigner.php

Displaying BLOB of type word doc in XML Publisher pdf output

Hi all,
Please guide me relating the Displaying BLOB of type word doc in XML Publisher pdf output with links or pointers.In the following xml column TRADE_LICENSE_COPY is BLOB when queried from toad and if clicked on the ouput word doc is being opened directly.How to show the column value word doc as attachment in pdf output?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

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<LIST_G_BASIC_QUSNRY>
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<UAE_REGISTRATION>Yes</UAE_REGISTRATION>
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<WEBSITE_DETAILS>com</WEBSITE_DETAILS>
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<LIST_G_CONTACTS>
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<G_CONTACTS>
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<PHONE_NUMBER>0</PHONE_NUMBER>
<EMAIL_ID>na</EMAIL_ID>
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<FY3_PROJTYPE_COMMERCIAL>Between 21 and 30 %</FY3_PROJTYPE_COMMERCIAL>
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<LIST_G_ADDRESS>
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<OFFICE_ADDRESS>Addres1</OFFICE_ADDRESS>
<ADDRESS_LINE1>Addre line1</ADDRESS_LINE1>
<ADDRESS_LINE2>Addre line2</ADDRESS_LINE2>
<ADDRESS_LINE3>Addre line3</ADDRESS_LINE3>
<CITY>City1</CITY>
<STATE>State1</STATE>
<COUNTRY>US</COUNTRY>
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<G_ADDRESS>
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<ADDRESS_LINE1>Addre line1</ADDRESS_LINE1>
<ADDRESS_LINE2>Addre line2</ADDRESS_LINE2>
<ADDRESS_LINE3>Addre line3</ADDRESS_LINE3>
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<COUNTRY>IN</COUNTRY>
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<LIST_G_PROD_SUB_CODE>
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<PROD_SUB_DESC>Automotive Maintenance Items and Repair/Replacement Parts.Filters: Air, Fuel, Oil, Power Steering, Transmission and Water, and PCV Valves</PROD_SUB_DESC>
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<G_PROD_SUB_CODE>
<PROD_SUB_CODE>060.60</PROD_SUB_CODE>
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<PROD_SUB_DESC>Computer Accessories and Supplies.CRT Holders, Cases, Glare Screens, Locks, etc.</PROD_SUB_DESC>
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<G_PROD_SUB_CODE>
<PROD_SUB_CODE>207.60</PROD_SUB_CODE>
<PROD_SUB_DESC>Computer Accessories and Supplies.Keyboard Dust Covers, Key Top Covers, Keyboard Drawers, Wrist Supports, etc.</PROD_SUB_DESC>
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<LIST_G_CONT_QUSNRY>
</LIST_G_CONT_QUSNRY>
<LIST_G_BUSS_CLASS>
<G_BUSS_CLASS>
<BUSS_CLASS>SUPPLY_CHAIN</BUSS_CLASS>
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<CF_SUPPLIER_NAME>N1</CF_SUPPLIER_NAME>
<CF_REG_STATUS>Draft</CF_REG_STATUS>
<CF_BUS_CLASS></CF_BUS_CLASS>
<CF_PROD_SUBCODE>060.36</CF_PROD_SUBCODE>
<CF_PROD_SUBCODE_MEAN>Automotive Maintenance Items and Repair/Replacement Parts.Electrical Accessories: Alternators, Ammeters, Coils, Distributors, Generators, Regulators, Starters, etc.</CF_PROD_SUBCODE_MEAN>
<CF_COUNTRY>India</CF_COUNTRY>
</XXTDIC_SUP_REG>
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
Mahi

Mahi,
you can't do that yet.

Print stored pdf files to a XML Publisher PDF report

I want to print PDF attachments to a XML Publisher PDF report. How can I do it?
For eg. We have an iRecruitment vacancy IRC1309 for which the applicants upload pdf resumes. We want to print applicant resumes to a single PDF file for review.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Aakash

Hi Guru,
I have requirement to show attachment file in AR invoices which is .pdf files in BI Reports or Oracle Report.. Can ony one guide me please.
Iam able to read blod data from fnd_lob table and also able to see junk data in xml output. Once rft template is generated then it is coming as blank. It does stream lob data. Can you please provide xsl fo statement to read.
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Edited by: user13084103 on Nov 7, 2011 4:49 AM
Edited by: user13084103 on Nov 7, 2011 4:50 AM

Extracting XML from Pdf form

There is an industry standard pdf form with an underlying XML schema which can be opened in Adobe reader.
The form has a custom button on Page 2 called "export" which can be manually clicked to export the XML file.
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Thanks Patrick.
We are thinking about using a third party native Java library to do this (http://www.qoppa.com/pdffields/jpfindex.html). I was hoping we could use acrobat reader, since everyone has it!
Here are a few more things.
1. We are an Software Vendor that sells our solutions - our software solutions need to extract the xml from pdf. We have a java based program that parses this xml and does stuff with it.
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I'm want to dip my toe into the world of XML/XSLT development
to help with
job applications. Seems there's a lot of companies asking for
this.
I've been developing ASP applications for a number of years,
but i've never
looked at XML, etc...
Can anyone provide a strating point, examples, etc? I'm also
looking to
learn .NET too (think i have a mountain to climb).
I've been using Access database for my applications but also
need to expand
by using MS SQL on my local machine.
Any ideas wher to start?
Hope someone can point me in the right direction - Thanks in
Adance
Andy

> Can anyone provide a strating point, examples, etc? I'm
also looking to
> learn .NET too (think i have a mountain to climb).
And at the top of that mountain is a pile of .net XML
applications. I can't
say that's the motherland of software development, but, yea,
it probably
pays good. ;o)
> Any ideas wher to start?
Well, if you start using asp.net 2.0, a lot of the built-in
controls
leverage XML and XSLT, so you'll begin to get your hand dirty
just going
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Hi all!
I'm in a bit of a dilema. As the least knowledgable member of our small development group (3 people incl. me) I'm caught in the middle of a pretty fierce debate over whether or not to we should implement JSP.
Currently to seperate business logic from presentation we have our servlets pass XML to the browser and then the browser renders the HTML using the appropriate .xsl (sometimes we use server-side transformation).
Now one of the guys wants to use MVC/Struts and JSPs in order to create a much needed UI for an application. The plan is to not put any Java code in the JSP (seperation of logic and presentation - good, business logic in both the JSP and Servlet - bad.) but the other guy is still vehemently against it.
He says that anything JSP can do we can already do with XML/XSLT and to add JSP to our environment would complicate things.
And while I agree with him there, there are some things that when you do them with JSPs make the code more readable and transparent.
If you had to take a side, which one would you choose?
Has anyone else out there already gone through this debate? I'd be interested in knowing the outcome.
Thanks,
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I have a couple of comments.
1> "XML to the browser and then the browser renders the HTML using the appropriate .xsl"
I all cases you should do the transformations on the server. Lot of browser do not know how to
do a xsl transform. And since you can do it some time why not do it not everytime?
2> "business logic in both the JSP and Servlet"
Business logic should neither be in servlets nor in jsp. I think they should be in business logic beans.
3> "anything JSP can do we can already do with XML/XSLT "
Although anything can be done using xml/xsl or jsp there are a bit of differences where struts-jsp architecture is more perferable.
Imaging a web site which has lots of online forms(with textfiedls, checkboxes, select lists, etc) which are to be validated and if some validation fails the same form is to be shown with the values already submitted prefilled. Doing this with xml/xsl or even simple jsp could be a nightmare.
But if you use struts MVC architecture with jsp and struts taglib this will be very very simple.
Introducing struts-jsp will not complicate things and if the scnario described above is there or could arise in your application then you should seriously think about using struts+jsp. That does not mean you will have to scrap you xml+xsl architecture. You can still generate the xml using your action bean , put the xml in request and forward it to you jsp for rendetion. The jsp page could then use a taglib which has the xsl transformation code to do the xslt transformation.
The above comments are not just my thoughts but i have also implemented/experienced the above during various projects and they have proved to be useful.
Cheers!

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I need PO output with XML and PDF format. when I give print it shld go to vendor with xml and pdf format through mail. please kindly guide me on this .
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JK

hi,
try this code to get in pdf form
REPORT zsuresh_test.
Variable declarations
DATA:
w_form_name TYPE tdsfname VALUE 'ZSURESH_TEST',
w_fmodule TYPE rs38l_fnam,
w_cparam TYPE ssfctrlop,
w_outoptions TYPE ssfcompop,
W_bin_filesize TYPE i, " Binary File Size
w_FILE_NAME type string,
w_File_path type string,
w_FULL_PATH type string.
Internal tables declaration
Internal table to hold the OTF data
DATA:
t_otf TYPE itcoo OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE,
Internal table to hold OTF data recd from the SMARTFORM
t_otf_from_fm TYPE ssfcrescl,
Internal table to hold the data from the FM CONVERT_OTF
T_pdf_tab LIKE tline OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE.
This function module call is used to retrieve the name of the Function
module generated when the SMARTFORM is activated
CALL FUNCTION 'SSF_FUNCTION_MODULE_NAME'
EXPORTING
formname = w_form_name
VARIANT = ' '
DIRECT_CALL = ' '
IMPORTING
fm_name = w_fmodule
EXCEPTIONS
no_form = 1
no_function_module = 2
OTHERS = 3
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
MESSAGE ID sy-msgid TYPE sy-msgty NUMBER sy-msgno
WITH sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4.
ENDIF.
Calling the SMARTFORM using the function module retrieved above
GET_OTF parameter in the CONTROL_PARAMETERS is set to get the OTF
format of the output
w_cparam-no_dialog = 'X'.
w_cparam-preview = space. " Suppressing the dialog box
" for print preview
w_cparam-getotf = 'X'.
Printer name to be used is provided in the export parameter
OUTPUT_OPTIONS
w_outoptions-tddest = 'LP01'.
CALL FUNCTION w_fmodule
EXPORTING
ARCHIVE_INDEX =
ARCHIVE_INDEX_TAB =
ARCHIVE_PARAMETERS =
control_parameters = w_cparam
MAIL_APPL_OBJ =
MAIL_RECIPIENT =
MAIL_SENDER =
output_options = w_outoptions
USER_SETTINGS = 'X'
IMPORTING
DOCUMENT_OUTPUT_INFO =
job_output_info = t_otf_from_fm
JOB_OUTPUT_OPTIONS =
EXCEPTIONS
formatting_error = 1
internal_error = 2
send_error = 3
user_canceled = 4
OTHERS = 5
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
MESSAGE ID sy-msgid TYPE sy-msgty NUMBER sy-msgno
WITH sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4.
ENDIF.
t_otf[] = t_otf_from_fm-otfdata[].
Function Module CONVERT_OTF is used to convert the OTF format to PDF
CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERT_OTF'
EXPORTING
FORMAT = 'PDF'
MAX_LINEWIDTH = 132
ARCHIVE_INDEX = ' '
COPYNUMBER = 0
ASCII_BIDI_VIS2LOG = ' '
PDF_DELETE_OTFTAB = ' '
IMPORTING
BIN_FILESIZE = W_bin_filesize
BIN_FILE =
TABLES
otf = T_OTF
lines = T_pdf_tab
EXCEPTIONS
ERR_MAX_LINEWIDTH = 1
ERR_FORMAT = 2
ERR_CONV_NOT_POSSIBLE = 3
ERR_BAD_OTF = 4
OTHERS = 5
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
ENDIF.
To display File SAVE dialog window
CALL METHOD cl_gui_frontend_services=>file_save_dialog
EXPORTING
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

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