Hi Andreas,
I found it - thanks for your help.
Kind regards
Maruan Sahyoun
Am 11.01.2013 um 13:21 schrieb Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de>:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> maybe I should have been clearer in my question. What I' trying to do is
> reading the XFA part of a form,
>
> where the XFA is part of an array
>
> COSString{xdp:xdp}
> COSObject{61, 0}
> COSString{config}
> COSObject{4, 0}
> COSString{template}
> COSObject{5, 0}
> COSString{datasets}
> COSObject{62, 0}
> COSString{localeSet}
> COSObject{7, 0}
> COSString{xmpmeta}
> COSObject{8, 0}
> COSString{xfdf}
> COSObject{9, 0}
> COSString{form}
> COSObject{63, 0}
> COSString{</xdp:xdp>}
> COSObject{64, 0}
>
> Now the array acts as as key value pair where the odd entry is the key (e.g.
> xdp:xdp) and the even part is the content of this subsection of the XFA. In
> my sample the content of <datasets> is contained in <62,0>. Now this is a
> stream with the following dictionary
> COSDictionary{(COSName{Filter}:COSArray{[COSName{FlateDecode}]})
> (COSName{Length}:COSInt{477}) (COSName{Type}:COSName{EmbeddedFile}) }
>
> And this is what I'm trying to read.
>
> The other possible implementation for an XFA form is that the content is not
> splitted into individual parts contained in an array but the whole XFA is
> contained in a single stream.
>
> Plan is to provide a patch to extract the XFA and in another stage to replace
> the XFA with new content so people using pdfbox can extract data from XFA
> forms and prepopulate XFA forms using pdfbox.
>
>
> Maruan Sahyoun
>
> Am 11.01.2013 um 13:06 schrieb "Andreas Lehmkühler" <andr...@lehmi.de>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de> hat am 11. Januar 2013 um 11:52
>> geschrieben:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a handling question regarding PDFBox. Im trying to read an object
>>> which
>>> is defined as
>>> COSDictionary{(COSName{Filter}:COSArray{[COSName{FlateDecode}]})
>>> (COSName{Length}:COSInt{477}) (COSName{Type}:COSName{EmbeddedFile}) }
>>>
>>> How can I get the content of that object?
>> Have a look at the ExtractEmbeddedFiles example [1]
>>
>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>> Maruan Sahyoun
>>
>> BR
>> Andreas Lehmkühler
>>
>> [1]
>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/trunk/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/ExtractEmbeddedFiles.java?view=log
>
