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converting xml to pdf .....

Yashpal — Wed, 03 May 2006 05:50:39 GMT

Hi ,

I have a xml file containing data...how can i display it as a PDF .....

Re: converting xml to pdf .....

Former Member — Wed, 03 May 2006 05:56:33 GMT

Hi Gupta,

Kindly check this link..

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/10/16/fop.html

Reward points if it helps..

with regards,

Manikandan R

Re: converting xml to pdf .....

Former Member — Wed, 03 May 2006 06:03:26 GMT

GOOD

GO THROUGH THE ABOVE LINKS

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/43/3bc6e1838d30b4e10000000a11466f/content.htm

http://xml.coverpages.org/mckinley-km.html

http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/howto/howto-html-pdf-publishing.html

THANKS

MRUTYUN

Re: converting xml to pdf .....

Former Member — Wed, 03 May 2006 06:04:38 GMT

hi ,

i know how to convert it to doc

following link got the code

http://www.sap-img.com/abap/xml-file-to-word-document-through-sap.htm

please reward if it helps.

Re: converting xml to pdf .....

athavanraja — Wed, 03 May 2006 06:30:00 GMT

XML file generally contains data. you have to convert the xml file using XSLT or other mechanisms to the desired format (for example a table or tree, etc) this converted stuff should then be converted to PDF.

there is something called XML formatting object (XSL-FO)

using this you can (its a XSL program) build the xsl -fo object with various formatting object and then use the xsl-fo object along with FOP (formatted object processor - sample apache) to convert it to PDF.

since in your case you wanted to do it from ABAP i would suggest yout to parse the XML file into say a itab and use the itab values to generate a list or spool and use them to generated PDF using the stadard FMs ABAPSPOOLTO*PDF, etc

Regards

Raja

Re: converting xml to pdf .....

Yashpal — Wed, 03 May 2006 07:19:05 GMT

Hi Raja,

actually whai i have is a xml data ....i dont want to convert into some internal table...as pdf can read the xml. i want to know how to pass the layout through xml for generating the PDF and how to communicate with the ADS ......

Re: converting xml to pdf .....

Former Member — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:17:23 GMT

Hi Raja,

I have a similar task as you can see here.

I wonder to know how would you parse the XML into a itab. In my case a have a LARGE XML and i haven't got any abap structure to store the xml data in it.

Thanks in advance

Aaron