Is it possible to embed an external PDF or TEXT document into a master PDF by using XSL-FO/XSLT?
I have xslt stylesheet to produce PDF documents. But, the input XML contains inlined TEXT or Base64 encoded PDF documents. So what I do in my HTML version of my stylesheet I extract the TEXT or PDF and dump it on disk. Then in the xslt I have this:
<xsl:when test='(n1:text/@mediaType="application/pdf") or (n1:text/@representation="B64")'>
<IFRAME name='documentFrame' id='documentFrame' WIDTH='100%' HEIGHT='65%' src='{$DOC_URI}'/>
</xsl:when>
For HTML conversion it is working perfectly. Is it possible to achieve the same result (embed document) inside a PDF? I have an XSLT for pdf generation but have been unsuccessful at accomplishing the same result.
I have tried add-ons for Apache FOP like this one (PDF Image Support):
<fox:external-document src="my-doc.pdf"/>
Apparently it is only for images.
Any hints?
Thank you
XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects) is a markup language for XML document formatting that is most often used to generate PDF files. XSL-FO is part of XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language), a set of W3C technologies designed for the transformation and formatting of XML data.
Apache™ FOP It is a Java application that reads a formatting object (FO) tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, XML (area tree representation), Print, AWT and PNG, and to a lesser extent, RTF and TXT. The primary output target is PDF.
So I found it is possible using my previous solution, I was just not doing it right. Check it out here: FOP Extension
Also, here is an example of how to use it:
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:fox="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/extensions">
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="A4">
<fo:region-body/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="A4">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block-container>
<fo:block>Hello W3Schools</fo:block>
<fo:block>
</fo:block>
</fo:block-container>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
<fox:external-document content-type="pdf" src="../example_file/test.pdf"/>
</fo:root>
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