I'd avoid creating XML by string concatenation. Too many things that can go wrong.
Please have a look at the embedding examples [1] in the FOP distribution. There's a particular example [2] that should fit nicely with your requirements after a few modifications. Instead of using a plain Java object as a data source you can just as easily create an XMLReader descendant [3] to create SAX events from a database result set. Using SAX events will free you from the necessity to handle many XML-specifics (like character escaping) if you use string concatenation. By piping the generated SAX events directly through to FOP [2] you also have a very fast system, as you don't have to parse the XML again that you created. [1] http://xml.apache.org/fop/embedding.html#examples [2] http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/examples/embedding/java/embedding/ExampleObj2XML.java?rev=1.4 [3] http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/xml-fop/examples/embedding/java/embedding/model/ProjectTeamXMLReader.java?rev=1.3 I hope that helps. On 15.02.2005 02:36:58 Manisha Sathe wrote: > Initially i tested creating pdf using static xml/xsl file using > following dos prompt cmd - > > fop -xml myxml.xml -xsl myxsl.xsl -pdf mydoc.pdf > > Now i want to generate xml/pdf on fly. User will specify search > criteria - depending on that i will pick up data from database.I want > to generate xml from this data and use it to create pdf file. > > What is normal practice to do this? > > 1)I am not too sure about how to create XML - whether use SAX/DOM or > just type it out as a string data > 2)e.g If i generate XML o/p as a string - whether can i make use of > this XML String to generate pdf ? Or i need to write this in a file ? > > Pls guide me, if anybody can share sample which shows creation of XML > and generate pdf from that - would be a greate help. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
