The FopServlet reads a .fo file. This is of no use to me. I will
dyamically generate XML contianing only data. This XML will be in a
StringBuffer. I first need to apply an XSL sytle sheet to this
StringBuffer, generating a new XML stream (IN MEMORY). This new (IN MEMORY)
XML stream then needs to be ran through FOP to generate a PDF stream which
will be sent back to the browser. The embed sample also shows how to
process .FO files. This is not what I want The ONLY file that can be
on disk is the XSL file which contains the FO tags to apply to the XML data.
Applying XSL to your XML in memory should be fairly easy. The
transformation APIs in JAXP handle this. then just edit the servlet code to
handle something other than a file stream. I got this to work without much
problem a while ago. My code is appended below -- I think it worked with
0.17, haven't checked it in a while. It differs only slightly from the
original. The fo data comes in an HTTP parameter called fo, though you
can change the name. It loads this all into the String called fo. Then when
it sets up the driver, instead of passing it a FileInputSource, it passes
it a StringInputSource derived from the fo String.
I dimly recollect that the Driver interface changed a lot in 0.18 so some
of these methods may now be hidden, i.e. not called directly in the
servlet, but if you manually configure your driver, changing the type of
input source you hand it should not be hard.
-- sgl
/*-- $Id: FopServlet.java,v 1.2 2001/03/03 07:06:03 kellyc Exp $ --
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// Java
import java.io.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Date;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
// SAX
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
// FOP
import org.apache.fop.messaging.MessageHandler;
import org.apache.fop.configuration.Configuration;
import org.apache.fop.apps.Driver;
import org.apache.fop.apps.Version;
/**
* Example servlet to generate a PDF from a servlet.
* Servlet param is:
* ul
* lifo: the path to a formatting object file to render
* /ul
*
* Example URL:
http://servername/servlet/FopServlet?fo=/home/fop/example/readme.fo
*
*/
public class FopStream extends HttpServlet
{
public static final String FO_REQUEST_PARAM = fo;
/**
