John,
one way is to author a xpl pipeline processor declared in page-flow like
this (following the government forms example):
<page id="pdf-detail"
path-info="/your-app-name/pdf-detail/([^/]+)/([^/]+)"
matcher="oxf:perl5-matcher"
default-submission="detail/parameters.xml"
view="detail/pdf-detail-view.xpl">
<setvalue ref="/parameters/form-id" matcher-group="1"/>
<setvalue ref="/parameters/document-id" matcher-group="2"/>
</page>
The xpl:
<p:pipeline xmlns:p="
http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/pipeline" xmlns:oxf="
http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/processors" xmlns:xxforms="
http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/xforms" xmlns:xforms="
http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"> <p:param name="instance" type="input"/>
<p:param name="data" type="output"/>
<p:processor name="oxf:xforms-submission">
<p:input name="submission">
<xforms:submission serialization="none" method="get"
xxforms:username="admin" xxforms:password=""
action="
http://localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/orbeon/your-app-name/{/*/form-id}/{/*/document-id}
"/>
</p:input>
<p:input name="request" href="#instance"/>
<p:output name="response" id="document"/>
</p:processor>
<p:processor name="oxf:pdf-template">
<p:input name="data" href="#document"/>
<p:input name="model"
href="#instance#xpointer(doc(concat('../forms/', /*/form-id,
'/pdf-model.xml')))"/>
<p:output name="data" ref="data"/>
</p:processor>
</p:pipeline>
And you will need to write a pdf-model.xml that uses the coordinates to hold
the values. The transformation takes place on a trigger call that can be
target="_blank" .
HTH
-- einar
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:20 AM, JohnBampton <jbampton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Surely someone can show me some example code or a tutorial on how to do
> this.
> The problem with all this xforms stuff is that there is so little
> documentation/tutorials. All I want to do is run a XSL transformation on
> the click of a button/trigger that will output a pdf based on the instance
> in memory.
>
> Any ideas? Please help!
>
>
>
> JohnBampton wrote:
> >
> > Actually on the click of a button I want to run and XSLT/XSL-FO template
> > that trasforms the in memory model instance to create a pdf either
> opening
> > in a new window or as a download.
> >
> > I already know xslt/xsl-fo so this would be the easiest way for me.
> >
> > How can I do this?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > John.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Alexander Žaťko wrote:
> >>
> >> This might help:
> >>
> >>
>
http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/user-guide/form-builder-user-guide#TOC-PDF-generation> >>
> >> ...or you can use the PDF Template processor (just google oxf:pdf-
> >> template) in conjunction with some server-based XPL business logic.
> >>
> >> A.
> >>
> >> On Aug 22, 2009, at 5:31 AM, JohnBampton wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I was wondering how to create a pdf of the form when the submit
> >>> button is
> >>> pressed.
> >>>
> >>> I also have to submit to a database/webservice at the same time.
> >>>
> >>> The pdf should be output to the browser.
> >>>
> >>> Do I have to use the XSL-FO converter? If so how do i do this?
> >>>
> >>> I want to take all forms labels and fields into the pdf.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> John.
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