Marten van der Honing wrote:

Peter: Did you write a preprocessor in cocoon? Where can i find more info on
that?

Meanwhile i tried another approach:
<xsl:variable name="image-base64" select=".//IMAGE"/>

You might try
<xsl:variable name="image-base64" select="string(.//IMAGE)"/>
just to be sure.

<fo:external-graphic
src="url('data:image/gif;base64,{$image-base64}')"
height="3cm" width="3cm" />

But now i get an error in html instead of an pdf file:

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cocoon stacktrace[hide] java.lang.NullPointerException cocoon://fop_post/xsl - 4:14
Exception in StreamGenerator.generate() cocoon://fop_post/xsl - 4:14
[TransformerException] context://fop_post/sitemap.xmap - 11:32 <map:serialize type="xml"> context://fop_post/sitemap.xmap - 7:33 <map:generate type="stream"> context://fop_post/sitemap.xmap - 44:37 <map:serialize type="fo2pdf"> context://fop_post/sitemap.xmap - 43:42 <map:transform> context://fop_post/sitemap.xmap - 32:38 <map:generate> context://sitemap.xmap - 1034:92 <map:mount>

Can you post parts of the actual Java stack trace?

Joerg

Maybe i should try to show the base64 as text in the pdf first to see if it
still there.

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Peter Flynn [mailto:pfl...@ucc.ie] Verzonden: donderdag 18 december 2008 10:24
Aan: users@cocoon.apache.org
Onderwerp: Re: generate pdf from xml with embedded image?


Ken Starks wrote:
[...]
I did have a few images that were stored also in a database, but I would pre-process them in a seperate stage, generating a local copy, and populating a table of the database with the path. This was a batch process, not an interactive one, and it used python rather than cocoon. (Actually, it could do a minor amount of image-processing as well, such as cropping, changing contrast, creating thumbnails, changing to a different format, Etc and used Image magick as well as python).

I do something very similar, taking in Word XML documents. The preprocessor extracts any encoded image data, converts them back to image format, creates thumbnails and web-res versions, and adds details of them to an XML file in their directory, rather than using a database. The XSL[T] processes then reference them externally as images, which is probably faster than doing database extraction and image conversion in real time.

I suppose it depends on the amount of storage you have, and how
important it is to you to store your images on a database.

In this case there are typically only a handful of images, so a database would be overkill: YMMV.

///Peter

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