Help needed with the pdf-template processor

Greetings,

I recently started looking into the possibility to migrate our
PHP-based web forms to Orbeon, but as not being an XML programmer, I'm
having some difficulty in configuring the pdf-template processor and
couldn't find any clue from the documentation. Could someone may offer
some help?

What I wish to do is to submit the following simple instance to the
pdf-template processor and render the text on a very simple pdf file:

The instance:
<xforms:instance id="pdf-instance" xmlns="">
       <field-data>
               <first-name>John</first-name>
               <last-name>Smith</last-name>
       </field-data>
</xforms:instance>

in my page flow, I have:

<page path-info="/pdf-test/make-pdf">
       <action action="make-pdf.xpl"/>
</page>

and I have a pdf-template.xml that looks like:
<config xmlns:st="pdf-test">
       <template href="oxf:/apps/hwhite/hwhite.pdf" show-grid="false"/>
       <field left="100" top="100" size="20" value="st:first-name"/>
       <field left="150" top="150" size="20" value="st:last-name"/>
</config>

Could someone may let me know how can I compose the xpl file to
connect the above components and make them to work? I suppose in my
make-pdf.xpl, there might be something like:

<p:config xmlns:p="http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/pipeline"
        xmlns:oxf="http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/processors"
        xmlns:delegation="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/delegation"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

   <p:param name="instance" type="input"/>

   <!-- Produce PDF document -->
   <p:processor name="oxf:pdf-template">
       <p:input name="instance" href="#instance"/>
       <p:input name="model" href="oxf:pdf-template.xml"/>
       <!-- TODO: Remove this input -->
       <p:input name="config"><config/></p:input>
       <p:output name="data" ref="data"/>
   </p:processor>
</p:config>

Thanks in advance!
Jason

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Jason,

We do need some more documentation on this processor.

First, you seem to have a namespace issue: your field-data, first-name
and last-name elements in XForms are in no namespace (xmlns=""), but
you try to address them in the "pdf-test" namespace in the PDF
template (st:first-name, etc.).

Second, you need to use a proper path to access the data,
i.e. /field-data/first-name, etc. Try something like this:

<config xmlns:st="pdf-test">
   <template href="oxf:/apps/hwhite/hwhite.pdf" show-grid="false"/>
   <group ref="/field-data">
     <field left="100" top="100" size="20" value="first-name"/>
     <field left="150" top="150" size="20" value="last-name"/>
   </group>
</config>

-Erik

[hidden email] wrote:
 > Greetings,
 >
 > I recently started looking into the possibility to migrate our
 > PHP-based web forms to Orbeon, but as not being an XML programmer, I'm
 > having some difficulty in configuring the pdf-template processor and
 > couldn't find any clue from the documentation. Could someone may offer
 > some help?
 >
 > What I wish to do is to submit the following simple instance to the
 > pdf-template processor and render the text on a very simple pdf file:
 >
 > The instance:
 > <xforms:instance id="pdf-instance" xmlns="">
 >        <field-data>
 >       <first-name>John</first-name>
 >       <last-name>Smith</last-name>
 >        </field-data>
 > </xforms:instance>
 >
 > in my page flow, I have:
 >
 > <page path-info="/pdf-test/make-pdf">
 >        <action action="make-pdf.xpl"/>
 > </page>
 >
 > and I have a pdf-template.xml that looks like:
 > <config xmlns:st="pdf-test">
 >        <template href="oxf:/apps/hwhite/hwhite.pdf" show-grid="false"/>
 >        <field left="100" top="100" size="20" value="st:first-name"/>
 >        <field left="150" top="150" size="20" value="st:last-name"/>
 > </config>
 >
 > Could someone may let me know how can I compose the xpl file to
 > connect the above components and make them to work? I suppose in my
 > make-pdf.xpl, there might be something like:
 >
 > <p:config xmlns:p="http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/pipeline"
 > xmlns:oxf="http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/processors"
 > xmlns:delegation="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/delegation"
 > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 >
 >    <p:param name="instance" type="input"/>
 >
 >    <!-- Produce PDF document -->
 >    <p:processor name="oxf:pdf-template">
 >        <p:input name="instance" href="#instance"/>
 >        <p:input name="model" href="oxf:pdf-template.xml"/>
 >        <!-- TODO: Remove this input -->
 >        <p:input name="config"><config/></p:input>
 >        <p:output name="data" ref="data"/>
 >    </p:processor>
 > </p:config>
 >
 > Thanks in advance!
 > Jason
 >
 >> I posted this message to the mailing group a few hours ago but it didn't
 > appear. Have to send it again and my apology if you receive duplicated
 > messages. <
 >


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