PDF file contents of word document using XSLT.

Hi public,

I am creating pdf file through the XML, XSL and FOP. I want PDF file contents to display external file contents such as word document.
I know for displaying image in PDF we use <fo:external-graphic> but what tag we should to display file contents other than pdf file type.

Thanks in advance.

Rahul

Ok, now I found workaround to this as extenal-garphic is only for images. I am reading the file contents and putting it into XML, XM L is pretty fine but when I use xslt to it it gives me following error:

My file data in XML is as

so, what I need to do so that I can put proper data into the PDF.

There's a FOP extension that claims to be able to do this: http://www.jeremias-maerki.ch/development/fop/index.html

Also see http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/extensions.html#external-document

Also, it looks like you tried to put binary data (such as a PDF) into XML - that won't work.

I am using following code but when i run the program I am getting exception.

Exception as

Did you declare the fox namespace properly? http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/extensions.html#fox-namespace

ok, I did the same changes but the same exception. Let me put the XSL code here for your better understanding:

<?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"
	exclude-result-prefixes="fo">
	<xsl:template match="Reports">
		<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
               xmlns:fox="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/extensions">
			
			<fo:layout-master-set>
				<fo:simple-page-master master-name="my-page"
					page-height="210mm" page-width="170mm">
					<fo:region-body margin-top="1in"  margin-left="10pt" margin-bottom=".5in" extent="5in" />
					<fo:region-before extent="1in" />
					<fo:region-after extent=".4in"  background-color="silver" />
				</fo:simple-page-master>
			</fo:layout-master-set>

<fo:page-sequence master-reference="my-page">
				<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">
					<fo:block font-size="5pt" text-align="right"  start-indent="15pt">
						Physical Database/Files
					</fo:block>
					<fo:block font-size="5pt" text-align="right" start-indent="-40pt" padding-before="2mm" padding-after="2mm">
						Page
						<fo:page-number />
						of
						<fo:page-number-citation ref-id="last-page" />
					</fo:block>
				</fo:static-content>

<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">
					<fo:block text-align="left" background-color="silver"
						padding-before="2mm"   padding-after="2mm" font-size="5pt">
				     	<fo:block start-indent="15pt">
			      			This is the test Header.
			      		</fo:block>
					</fo:block>
				</fo:static-content>

<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
				<fo:block white-space-collapse="false"  break-before="page">           
		             <fox:external-document content-type="pdf" src="C:\temp\reports\p2.pdf"/>  
		        </fo:block> 
					
				<fo:block id="last-page" />
				</fo:flow>
			</fo:page-sequence>
		</fo:root>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks in advance.

It is my understanding that using PDFs for fo:external-graphic and fox:external-document will only work if you've installed the FOP extensions I pointed you to; did you do that?

Ya, I have put the following jar files in the classpath but it did not work

fontbox-0.8.0-incubating.jar
jempbox-0.8.0-incubating.jar
fop-pdf-images-2.0.0.SNAPSHOT.jar

Be sure to read the instructions carefully; it seems you missed a jar file.

I have this pdfbox-0.8.0-incubating.jar in class path..bymistakely I forgot to mention in the previous mail.
Same thing is happening..Sorry for bothering...but I need some help ASAP.

Thanks for helping.