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Posted to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by "Cai, Jenny (US - Dallas)" <jc...@deloitte.com> on 2002/04/05 00:31:59 UTC
Question for FOP
Hi,
I just successfully run the examples (simple.fo) provided in
'fop-0.20.3-bin.tar.gz' file under fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\fo subdirectory
in the command prompt and I got a pdf file successfully . I still have the
following question:
1. How can I view the source code for this example?
2. I also looked over all the rest of the folders included in 'fop-0.20.3'
and there are a lot other folders like design, html-docs(some .html files in
it), xml-docs(some xml files in it), etc. What are all those files used
for?
3. Actually what I want to do is: convert a XML file to PDF file and
display this PDF file on the web page. How to do this?
I am new to this and really like to have your advices and help. So if you
could provide further information, I would appreciate it very much.
Jenny
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Re: Question for FOP
Posted by Rick Tessner <ri...@canada.com>.
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 14:31, Cai, Jenny (US - Dallas) wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Jenny,
> I just successfully run the examples (simple.fo) provided in
> 'fop-0.20.3-bin.tar.gz' file under fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\fo subdirectory
> in the command prompt and I got a pdf file successfully . I still have the
> following question:
>
> 1. How can I view the source code for this example?
I think, based on your third question below, that you're looking for an
XML file that is then converted to PDF. The "simple.fo" is the source,
written in XSL:FO, which is XML. But, probably not what you were
expecting.
I personally don't write my documentation directly in XSL:FO but instead
write them in some other XML format (such as DocBook,
http://docbook.org/ ) and then write stylesheets (or using existing
stylesheets) to convert the XML format to XSL:FO. I then use FOP to
render the XSL:FO as PDF.
I think that's the kind of thing that you would be looking for as well.
> 2. I also looked over all the rest of the folders included in 'fop-0.20.3'
> and there are a lot other folders like design, html-docs(some .html files in
> it), xml-docs(some xml files in it), etc. What are all those files used
> for?
These would just be the documentation for FOP. The html-docs folder
contains the FOP documentation in HTML format, generated from the
xml-docs/fop folder. I noticed that under the xml-docs folder, there is
the skins folder which contains stylesheets (used in converting the XML
documents to HTML, PDF, etc).
Think of the xml-docs folder as the source and the the html-docs folder
as the output (programatically speaking).
> 3. Actually what I want to do is: convert a XML file to PDF file and
> display this PDF file on the web page. How to do this?
There would be a couple of ways of doing this. The first would be to
generate the PDF in a batch mode and create a static web site containing
web pages that reference the static PDF documents.
The second would be to dynamically create the PDF documents. This would
be done with a servlet using a servlet engine such as Apache Tomcat.
There is an example of doing this on the Apache FOP website (
http://xml.apache.org/fop/embedding.html ). Another method would be to
use Apache Cocoon (which can also be found on http://xml.apache.org/ )
> I am new to this and really like to have your advices and help. So if you
> could provide further information, I would appreciate it very much.
Hope this helps.
--
Rick Tessner
ricktessner@canada.com
"There are no bad days. Only good days and great days."
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Re: Question for FOP
Posted by "J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>.
Cai, Jenny (US - Dallas) wrote:
> I just successfully run the examples (simple.fo) provided in
> 'fop-0.20.3-bin.tar.gz' file under fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\fo
> subdirectory in the command prompt and I got a pdf file successfully . I
> still have the following question:
>
> 1. How can I view the source code for this example?
>
> 2. I also looked over all the rest of the folders included in
> 'fop-0.20.3' and there are a lot other folders like design,
> html-docs(some .html files in it), xml-docs(some xml files in it), etc.
> What are all those files used for?
>
> 3. Actually what I want to do is: convert a XML file to PDF file and
> display this PDF file on the web page. How to do this?
>
What you are asking for is somewhat akin to
"I attended a guided tour at a military airbase. What I
want to do is: attack some real life hostile jet fighters
and have them shot down. How to do this?"
Your best bet is probably to hire a professional who does
the job for you.
Of course, you can go all the way yourself. Others did it,
though they didn't start with the questions above.
Good luck.
J.Pietschmann
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RE: Question for FOP
Posted by Roland Neilands <rn...@pulsemining.com.au>.
Yes, I had fop-0.20.3rc2.
It worked fine with xslfoRef.xml and xml2pdf.xsl btw.
Thanks for the help,
Roland.
-----Original Message-----
From: J.Pietschmann [mailto:j3322ptm@yahoo.de]
Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2002 6:09 AM
To: fop-user@xml.apache.org
Subject: Re: Question for FOP
J.Pietschmann wrote:
> Roland Neilands wrote:
>
>> C:\fop\fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\markers>fop -xsl glossary.xsl -xml
>> glossary.xml -pdf glossary.pdf
> This example triggers a bug in FOP 0.20.3 It uses
> fo:marker, which is broken. Don't use it.
>
Follow-up: It works in the final distribution of
FOP 0.20.3. Download and install the final distribution.
You have probably a fop-0.20.3rc or fop-0.20.3rc2
installed.
J.Pietschmann
Re: Question for FOP
Posted by "J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>.
J.Pietschmann wrote:
> Roland Neilands wrote:
>
>> C:\fop\fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\markers>fop -xsl glossary.xsl -xml
>> glossary.xml -pdf glossary.pdf
> This example triggers a bug in FOP 0.20.3 It uses
> fo:marker, which is broken. Don't use it.
>
Follow-up: It works in the final distribution of
FOP 0.20.3. Download and install the final distribution.
You have probably a fop-0.20.3rc or fop-0.20.3rc2
installed.
J.Pietschmann
Re: Question for FOP
Posted by "J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>.
Roland Neilands wrote:
> C:\fop\fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\markers>fop -xsl glossary.xsl -xml
> glossary.xml -pdf glossary.pdf
This example triggers a bug in FOP 0.20.3 It uses
fo:marker, which is broken. Don't use it.
J.Pietschmann
RE: Question for FOP
Posted by Roland Neilands <rn...@pulsemining.com.au>.
I am at a similar stage & followed this thread with interest. When I ran the
command line below it produced :
C:\fop\fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\markers>fop -xsl glossary.xsl -xml
glossary.xml
-pdf glossary.pdf
Running FOP
----------------
[INFO]: FOP 0.20.3
[INFO]: building formatting object tree
[INFO]: [1]
[ERROR]: java.lang.NullPointerException
C:\fop\fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\markers>
or excerpt of debug mode:
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.run(Unknown Source)
at
org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerHandlerImpl.endDocument(Unkno
wn Source)
at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser.endDocument(SAXParser.java:1225)
at
org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.callEndDocument(XMLV
alidator.java:760)
at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$EndOfInputDispatcher.d
ispatch(XMLDocumentScanner.java:1546)
at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome(XMLDocumentS
canner.java:381)
at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:948)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TrAXFilter.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.render(Driver.java:481)
at
org.apache.fop.apps.CommandLineStarter.run(CommandLineStarter.java:72
)
at org.apache.fop.apps.Fop.main(Fop.java:19)
C:\fop\fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\markers>
This is a pain as I will need to use XML/XSL input. The runtests.bat &
fop.bat worked fine on .fo but fail on XML/XSL.
I know little about Java/DOS batch files but have tried defining all FOP
.jar files in the CLASSPATH, & also the batch file command line, but all
produced the same message. I also modified the fop.bat to be runnable from
any directory & used absolute pathnames to the .jars, with the same result.
This was using JRE 1.4.0.
The DOS prompt did display more debug info, but it cannot scroll back.
Outputting to a text file using '> output.txt' on the command line instead
doesn't show the exception details.
If anyone can point out the problem or even better the solution here I would
very much appreciate it.
Regards,
Roland Neilands
Analyst/Programmer
Pulse Mining Systems Pty Ltd
(w) +612 4933 3300
(f) +612 4933 6732
(e) rneilands@pulsemining.com.au
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From: Chuck Paussa [mailto:Chuck.Paussa@systems.dhl.com]
Sent: Friday, 5 April 2002 9:33 AM
To: fop-user@xml.apache.org
Subject: Re: Question for FOP
Jenny,
1. To convert an XML to PDF, you'll need a properly coded XSL document.
(For instance, see if you can run the glossary example in
../examples/markers
command line = " fop -xsl glossary.xsl -xml glossary.xml -pdf glossary.pdf "
2. Display the results in a web page. Look at the instructions in
http://xml.apache.org/fop/embedding.html
3. Actually pulling it off. You'll need to study some
XSL tutorials like the one at http://www.arbortext.com/xsl/
FO tutorial like the one at http://www.renderx.com/tutorial.html
Chuck
Cai, Jenny (US - Dallas) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just successfully run the examples (simple.fo) provided in
> 'fop-0.20.3-bin.tar.gz' file under fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\fo
> subdirectory in the command prompt and I got a pdf file successfully .
> I still have the following question:
>
> 1. How can I view the source code for this example?
>
> 2. I also looked over all the rest of the folders included in
> 'fop-0.20.3' and there are a lot other folders like design,
> html-docs(some .html files in it), xml-docs(some xml files in it),
> etc. What are all those files used for?
>
> 3. Actually what I want to do is: convert a XML file to PDF file and
> display this PDF file on the web page. How to do this?
>
> I am new to this and really like to have your advices and help. So if
> you could provide further information, I would appreciate it very much.
>
> Jenny
>
> This message (including any attachments) contains confidential
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>
Re: Question for FOP
Posted by Chuck Paussa <Ch...@systems.dhl.com>.
Jenny,
1. To convert an XML to PDF, you'll need a properly coded XSL document.
(For instance, see if you can run the glossary example in
../examples/markers
command line = " fop -xsl glossary.xsl -xml glossary.xml -pdf glossary.pdf "
2. Display the results in a web page. Look at the instructions in
http://xml.apache.org/fop/embedding.html
3. Actually pulling it off. You'll need to study some
XSL tutorials like the one at http://www.arbortext.com/xsl/
FO tutorial like the one at http://www.renderx.com/tutorial.html
Chuck
Cai, Jenny (US - Dallas) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just successfully run the examples (simple.fo) provided in
> 'fop-0.20.3-bin.tar.gz' file under fop-0.20.3\docs\examples\fo
> subdirectory in the command prompt and I got a pdf file successfully .
> I still have the following question:
>
> 1. How can I view the source code for this example?
>
> 2. I also looked over all the rest of the folders included in
> 'fop-0.20.3' and there are a lot other folders like design,
> html-docs(some .html files in it), xml-docs(some xml files in it),
> etc. What are all those files used for?
>
> 3. Actually what I want to do is: convert a XML file to PDF file and
> display this PDF file on the web page. How to do this?
>
> I am new to this and really like to have your advices and help. So if
> you could provide further information, I would appreciate it very much.
>
> Jenny
>
> This message (including any attachments) contains confidential
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