Re: Want to know the normal practice

john farrow 8 Feb 2005 20:52:35 -0000

You data has "Catalog", but you stylesheet matches on "Catalogue" - the spelling is different.

Regards

John Farrow

Visual Programming Ltd
mail PO Box 22-222, Khandallah, Wellington, New Zealand
site Level 2, 2 Ganges Road, Khandallah, Wellington, New Zealand
phone +64 4 479 1738
fax +64 4 479 1294
web http://www.xmlpdf.com

----- Original Message -----

From: Manisha Sathe

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:36 PM

Subject: RE: Want to know the normal practice

1) I am just trying with one sample xml and xls (got from web).

2) Using FopServlet (came with fop - from servlet example)

3) But continuously getting NullPointer Exception at following

driver.render(input.getParser(), input.getInputSource());

I am attaching the xml and xsl for the info

XML File - data.xml

-------------------------------------------------------------

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Catalogue>
<Book>
<Title>Mastering EJB</Title>
<Author>Ed Roman</Author>
<Price>$45.00</Price>
</Book>
<Book>
<Title>Design Patterns</Title>
<Author>Erich Gamma</Author>
<Price>$50.00</Price>
</Book>
<Book>
<Title>Effective Java</Title>
<Author>Josch Bloch</Author>
<Price>$30.00</Price>
</Book>

</Catalogue>
----------------------------------------------------------

XSL File - format.xsl

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

<?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="java" exclude-result-prefixes="fo">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" omit-xml-declaration="no" indent="yes"/>



<xsl:template match="Catalog">
  <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">

   <fo:layout-master-set>

    <fo:simple-page-master master-name="simpleA4" page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21cm" margin-top="2cm" margin-bottom="2cm" margin-left="2cm" margin-right="2cm">
     <fo:region-body/>
    </fo:simple-page-master>
   </fo:layout-master-set>

   <fo:page-sequence master-reference="simpleA4">
    <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
     <fo:block font-size="16pt" font-weight="bold" space-after="5mm">Catalog Information
     </fo:block>



     <fo:block font-size="10pt">
      <fo:table table-layout="fixed">
       <fo:table-column column-width="8cm"/>
       <fo:table-column column-width="8cm"/>
       <fo:table-column column-width="8cm"/>
       <fo:table-body>
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
       </fo:table-body>
      </fo:table>
     </fo:block>
    </fo:flow>
   </fo:page-sequence>
  </fo:root>
</xsl:template>





<xsl:template match="Book">
<fo:table-row>
  <fo:table-cell>
   <fo:block>
     <xsl:value-of select="Title"/>
   </fo:block>
  </fo:table-cell>
  <fo:table-cell>
   <fo:block>
         <xsl:value-of select="Author"/>
   </fo:block>
  </fo:table-cell>
            <fo:table-cell>
   <fo:block>
         <xsl:value-of select="Price"/>
   </fo:block>
  </fo:table-cell>

</fo:table-row>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

-------------------------------------------------------------

Pls tell me what am i missing now ? If possible whether anybody can provide me the sample xml / xsl files so that i can test it out ?

regards

Manisha

Arun Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Manisha,

Once you have your XML, you can directly use :-

fop -xml myxml.xml -xsl myxsl.xsl -pdf mydoc.pdf

Hope the above helps.

Cheers.

Arun

>From: Manisha Sathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Want to know the normal practice
>Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 23:14:52 -0800 (PST)
>
>I need to pull some data from database and want to show it inside pdf in a
>tabular form. What is the best way to do it ?
>
>1)First create XML and convert it to FO
>2)Take FO and convert it into PDF
>
>Is there any other direct way ? My environment is java / JSP / Struts
>framework with MSSQL as backend. Is there any example for FOP with Database
>?
>
>btw, the examples given seems to be using deprecated methods, where can i
>find latest examples ? (using j2sdk 1.4.2_03)
>
>regards
>Manisha
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>---------------------------------
>Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term'

_________________________________________________________________
MSN Spaces! Your space, your time. http://www.msn.co.in/spaces Your personal
haven online.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term'

Re: Want to know the normal practice

Reply via email to