RE: Help - xml to pdf using struts

[mike . witt]

Title: RE: Help - xml to pdf using struts

Hi Lisa,

 

That looks similar to my solution.  The biggest problem I had was with getting IE to display the PDF inline without a PDF in the URL  Using a Struts action, I wasn't able to get the URL to change at the appropriate time with a redirect.  In the end, I sent the pdf as an attachment which gives the open/save prompt.  Were you able to get around this problem?

 

Thanks, Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa van Gelder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:52 AM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: RE: Help - xml to pdf using struts

Here is the bit of my action that deals with the pdf creation.

First I transform xml to fo using xsl (and Xalan). The result is written to an InputSteam, which is passed into FOP. The result from FOP is then written out the client and the content type is set to "application/pdf".

HTH

Lisa

-----Original Message-----
From: Zimmer, Robin (SSABSA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 August 2002 09:37
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: RE: Help - xml to pdf using struts

Lisa, That sounds can you provide an example action please.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa van Gelder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2002 6:01 PM
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Subject: RE: Help - xml to pdf using struts

I do the xml -> fo -> pdf transformation in an Action, and then stream the
result straight back to the browser.

Lisa

-----Original Message-----
From: Zimmer, Robin (SSABSA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 August 2002 09:28
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Subject: RE: Help - xml to pdf using struts

Thanks for getting back to me. I appreciate that I have to have xsl:fo to
transform the xml, but how best to render this using jsp??? Or do I need a
servlet???

-----Original Message-----
From: David WIlkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2002 5:57 PM
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Subject: RE: Help - xml to pdf using struts

We had to address a similar issue of creating pdf's from xml and found
that it can be done in a simple way using xsl:fo to transform the xml.

Check out http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html for more info.

-----Original Message-----
From: Zimmer, Robin (SSABSA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 August 2002 08:13
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Help - xml to pdf using struts

I am in the last stages of implementating a Struts application. I now
have
to complete the reporting side. This basically consists of displaying
xml
output as HTML or PDF. I have the HTML side covered (I am using jakarta
XTags) but how do I render an xml to fo transformation to pdf by using
struts. I am aware of stxx but as far as I can see you have to override
the
actionservlet etc and this seems an overhead for what is a small part of
the
app. Can anyone please give some suggestions.

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