Xml to Pdf in java using iText Sample code
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Xml to Pdf:
We can convert any xml file to pdf in java using iText lib.
Required Jar Files:
Xml File: (Sample xml file – to convert to pdf file)
<?xml version="1.0"?> <XMLtoPDF> <Friend> <FriendName>Hemakumar</FriendName> <FriendPlace>Arcot</FriendPlace> </Friend> <Friend> <FriendName>Chudar</FriendName> <FriendPlace>Vellore</FriendPlace> </Friend> <Friend> <FriendName>Selva kumar</FriendName> <FriendPlace>Arcot</FriendPlace> </Friend> </XMLtoPDF>
Xsl File (stylesheet for the above xml):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method='html' version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' indent='yes'/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <body> <h2>Xml 2 Pdf in Java Using iText</h2> <table border="1"> <tr bgcolor="skyblue"> <th align="left">Friend's Name</th> <th align="left">Friend's Place</th> </tr> <xsl:for-each select="XMLtoPDF/Friend"> <tr> <td><xsl:value-of select="FriendName"/></td> <td><xsl:value-of select="FriendPlace"/></td> </tr> </xsl:for-each> </table> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
Java Program which converts the xml file to pdf file:
package com.ngdeveloper;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import org.dom4j.DocumentException;
import org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer;
public class Xml2Pdf {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException, TransformerException,
TransformerConfigurationException, FileNotFoundException {
TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
// specify the input xsl file location to apply the styles for the pdf
// output file
Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource("D:\\javadomain.xsl"));
// specify the input xml file location
transformer.transform(new StreamSource("D:\\javadomain.xml"),
new StreamResult(new FileOutputStream("D:\\javadomain.html")));
// Specifying the location of the html file (xml converted to html)
String File_To_Convert = "D:\\javadomain.html";
String url = new File(File_To_Convert).toURI().toURL().toString();
System.out.println("" + url);
// Specifying the location of the outpuf pdf file.
String HTML_TO_PDF = "D:\\PdfFromXml.pdf";
OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(HTML_TO_PDF);
ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
renderer.setDocument(url);
renderer.layout();
renderer.createPDF(os);
os.close();
}
}
XML converted to Pdf File – output:
Hi, I do believe your site may be having web browser
compatibility issues. Whenever I look at your blog in Safari, it looks fine however when opening in I.E.,
it’s got some overlapping issues. I just wanted to give you a quick heads up!
Apart from that, excellent site!
Hi I get the PDF, but no bluecolor
in the HTML: I have the color..
and then i recive:
”
Warning: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser: Property ‘http://www.oracle.com/xml/jaxp/properties/entityExpansionLimit’ is not recognized.
Compilewarning:
WARNING: ‘org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl: Property ‘http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/property/accessExternalDTD’ is not recognized.’
Warning: org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser: Feature ‘http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/feature/secure-processing’ is not recognized.
Warning: org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser: Property ‘http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/property/accessExternalDTD’ is not recognized.
Warning: org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser: Property ‘http://www.oracle.com/xml/jaxp/properties/entityExpansionLimit’ is not recognized.
file:/Q:/Projekt/eclipse-java-luna-SR2-win32-x86_64/XMLfiler/javadomain.html
done!
and then:
IS it possible to use iText if i have a XML-file that i want to pictures if some text-element is a specific value?
or do i do this in XsL?
“
Hi, can you post the full source code to help you better…..
it look strange when I try this..
please loot at an exampel:
a XML:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<XMLtoPDF>
<Friend>
<FriendName>Hemakumar</FriendName>
<FriendPlace>Arcot</FriendPlace>
</Friend>
<Friend>
<FriendName>Chudar</FriendName>
<FriendPlace>Vellore</FriendPlace>
</Friend>
<Friend>
<FriendName>Selva kumar</FriendName>
<FriendPlace>Arcot</FriendPlace>
</Friend>
</XMLtoPDF>
a XLS:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method='html' version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' indent='yes'/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<img src="picture.jpg"/>
<h2>Xml 2 Pdf in Java Using iText</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="skyblue">
<th align="left">Friend's Name</th>
<th align="left">Friend's Place</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="XMLtoPDF/Friend">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="FriendName"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="FriendPlace"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when I run this, it generate a strange HTML-code 🙁
<html>
<body>
<img src="picture.jpg"><h2>Xml 2 Pdf in Java Using iText</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="skyblue">
<th align="left">Friend's Name</th><th align="left">Friend's Place</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hemakumar</td><td>Arcot</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Chudar</td><td>Vellore</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Selva kumar</td><td>Arcot</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
so it generate this:
<img src="picture.jpg">
and NOT this:
<img src="picture.jpg"/>
🙁
and the error:
Warning: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser: Property 'http://www.oracle.com/xml/jaxp/properties/entityExpansionLimit' is not recognized.
Kompileringsvarningar:
WARNING: 'org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl: Property 'http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/property/accessExternalDTD' is not recognized.'
Warning: org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser: Property 'http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/property/accessExternalDTD' is not recognized.
Warning: org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser: Property 'http://www.oracle.com/xml/jaxp/properties/entityExpansionLimit' is not recognized.
file:/Q:/Projekt/eclipse-java-luna-SR2-win32-x86_64/XMLfiler/javadomain2.html
ERROR: 'The element type "img" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</img>".'
org.xhtmlrenderer.util.XRRuntimeException: Can't load the XML resource (using TRaX transformer). org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 18; columnNumber: 3; The element type "img" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</img>".
at org.xhtmlrenderer.resource.XMLResource$XMLResourceBuilder.createXMLResource(XMLResource.java:191)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.resource.XMLResource.load(XMLResource.java:71)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.swing.NaiveUserAgent.getXMLResource(NaiveUserAgent.java:211)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer.loadDocument(ITextRenderer.java:134)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer.setDocument(ITextRenderer.java:138)
at Xml2Pdf.main(Xml2Pdf.java:82)
Caused by: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 18; columnNumber: 3; The element type "img" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</img>".
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(Unknown Source)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.resource.XMLResource$XMLResourceBuilder.createXMLResource(XMLResource.java:189)
… 5 more
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 18; columnNumber: 3; The element type "img" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</img>".
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transformIdentity(Unknown Source)
… 8 more
You are trying to create a table in pdf using xml right ? When I tried with the sample code and data shared here, I am able to get the output which is mentioned in the post.
you can try this free online pdf to text converter(http://www.online-code.net/pdf-to-word.html) to convert pdf to txt file online.