Q: FO2PDFFormatter() class

[Thomas Muschalik <th...@aquin.de>]

Dear Cocoon-Users,
Ive got a problem with the FO2PDFFormatter() class.
The use of the arguments of the .format(org.w3c.dom.Document document,
java.io.Writer writer, java.util.Dictionary parameters
) Method isnt really clear.
I dont know how to handle the Dictionary and i hope my suppose the writer
means "FileWriter m_fw = new FileWriter("dark.pdf");" is right.

Thanks a lot.


Here a snippet:

public class VposMain {

  public VposMain() {
  }
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    VposMain vposMain1 = new VposMain();
    try{

           Configurations m_conf = new Configurations("cocoon.properties");
	   File m_file = new File("darkness-novel.xml");
           FileWriter m_fw = new FileWriter("dark.pdf");

          	   FO2PDFFormatter m_form = new FO2PDFFormatter();
	   m_form.init(m_conf);

           m_form.format(readFile(m_file), m_fw, Di);

	   }
	   catch(Exception e)
	   {
	        e.printStackTrace();
	   }
  }
  public static Document readFile(File file) throws Exception
  {
    Document doc;
    try
    {
      DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
      dbf.setValidating(true);
      DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
      doc=db.parse(file);
      return doc;
    }
    catch(SAXParseException ex)
    {
    throw (ex);
    }
    catch(SAXException ex)
    {
      Exception x = ex.getException();
      throw((x == null) ? ex: x);
    }

  } 

Thomas Muschalik
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[C1.8.2] ESQL question

[Drasko Kokic <dr...@yahoo.com>]

Hi there,

I am having a problem in XSLT layer and am trying to
find what could possibly cause the error.
I am trying to process an array (created by ESQL)
which looks like this (including all white spaces):

                <TOTAL TIMESTAMP="2001-01-29 00:00">
                        
                        2
                      </TOTAL><TOTAL
TIMESTAMP="2001-01-27 00:00">
                        
                        16
                      </TOTAL><TOTAL
TIMESTAMP="2001-01-26 00:00">
                        
                        672
                      </TOTAL><TOTAL
TIMESTAMP="2001-01-25 00:00">
                        
                        576
                      </TOTAL>

I would like to know how to get rid of <new-line>
<25-space-chars> <new-line> <25-space-chars> before
each value and <new-line> <25-space-chars> after each
value ?!

Here is the ESQL code segment (without 18 space chars
at the begining):

  <esql:row-results>
    <TOTAL>
      <xsp:attribute name="TIMESTAMP"><esql:get-string
column="PERIOD"/></xsp:attribute>
      <esql:get-int column="TOTAL"/>
    </TOTAL>
  </esql:row-results>

One way to resolve the "problem" is to write the whole
<TOTAL> ... </TOTAL> in one line without any spaces
and new lines ... but, that doesn't look nice.

MY QUESTION: Is there any way to strip all the white
spaces before the code is generated so that I get only
the results values without any formating white spaces?

MORE PRECISE QUESTION:  Is it possible in XSP (and/or
ESQL taglib) to ignore any text not included in an
XSP/ESQL nodes?  That way the above mentioned ESQL
block would generate something like:
<TOTAL TIMESTAMP="2001-01-29 00:00">2</TOTAL>
<TOTAL TIMESTAMP="2001-01-27 00:00">16</TOTAL>
<TOTAL TIMESTAMP="2001-01-26 00:00">672</TOTAL>
<TOTAL TIMESTAMP="2001-01-25 00:00">576</TOTAL>

Is this behaviour under the power of XSP/ESQL or more
in the area of the XML serialiser???

Thanks in advance
Drasko

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