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PDF from xml & XSL document objects ?

Hi,

I am trying to modify my existing java class, that can generate different outputs. 

Is there a way to generate PDF document with XML Document object and XSL Document Object ?  . 

(The example that comes with FOP shows how to generate PDF document from XML file and XSL file. But my requirement is not this.)

Thanks in advance,

Kalyan



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Re: PDF from xml & XSL document objects ?

Posted by "J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>.
Todd McGrath wrote:
> Can you modify your existing classes to produce a
> javax.xml.transform.Source?  You can pass that to FOP.

There is a DOMSource.

J.Pietschmann

Re: PDF from xml & XSL document objects ?

Posted by clholm <vp...@earthlink.net>.
Try adding  the following to your DTD:

                        <!ENTITY nbsp '&#160;'>

Subsequently,  you should be able to safely use &nbsp;  in your XSL
stylesheet.


-Carl Holm



Kalyan Chakaravarthy wrote:

> Thanks for your ideas.
>
> Looks like Driver class and XSLTInputHandler classes do not accept DOM
> Document objects.
>
> Driver expects a stream to FO file. Now I have decided to produce an
> intermediate FOP stream. and then feed the same to Driver class.
>
> Every thing seems to be fine. But I use &#160; character in XSL
> document to produce &nbsp; in the result. This character is causing
> problem while producing PDF from intermediate FO file.
>
> It throws an exception: invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence (0xa0)
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Kalyan
>
>
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Re: PDF from xml & XSL document objects ?

Posted by "J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>.
Kalyan Chakaravarthy wrote:
> Looks like Driver class and XSLTInputHandler classes do not accept DOM Document objects. 
> Driver expects a stream to FO file. Now I have decided to produce an intermediate FOP stream.

This is almost always a bad idea. Look closely at the
code provided to you. Use a DOMSource to pass your
DOM documents to the transformer. The result is
piped to the FOP driver through a SAXResult.

You can take a look at the Java documentation for
further ideas.

> Every thing seems to be fine. But I use &#160; character in XSL document to produce &nbsp; in the result. This character is causing problem while producing PDF from intermediate FO file. 
> It throws an exception: invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence (0xa0)

You've got a problem with the file encoding, and with long
lines in your mail. For the first, look into the XSL FAQ,
reachable from
  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/


J.Pietschmann

RE: PDF from xml & XSL document objects ?

Posted by Kalyan Chakaravarthy <nk...@yahoo.com>.
Thanks for your ideas.
Looks like Driver class and XSLTInputHandler classes do not accept DOM Document objects. 
Driver expects a stream to FO file. Now I have decided to produce an intermediate FOP stream. and then feed the same to Driver class.
Every thing seems to be fine. But I use &#160; character in XSL document to produce &nbsp; in the result. This character is causing problem while producing PDF from intermediate FO file. 
It throws an exception: invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence (0xa0)
Any ideas ?
Kalyan



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RE: PDF from xml & XSL document objects ?

Posted by Todd McGrath <mc...@supergloo.com>.
Can you modify your existing classes to produce a
javax.xml.transform.Source?  You can pass that to FOP.

Simple Example:
Source strSource = new StreamSource(new StringReader(xmlString));
...
 Driver driver = new Driver();
 ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
 // FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream( "filename.pdf" );

 driver.setRenderer(driver.RENDER_PDF);
 driver.setOutputStream(out);
 Result saxResult = new SAXResult( driver.getContentHandler() );

 transformer.transform( strSource, saxResult );

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Kalyan Chakaravarthy [mailto:nkalyanc2000@yahoo.com]
  Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:31 AM
  To: fop-user@xml.apache.org
  Subject: PDF from xml & XSL document objects ?


  Hi,

  I am trying to modify my existing java class, that can generate different
outputs.

  Is there a way to generate PDF document with XML Document object and XSL
Document Object ?  .

  (The example that comes with FOP shows how to generate PDF document from
XML file and XSL file. But my requirement is not this.)

  Thanks in advance,

  Kalyan





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