Integrating Oracle XML Publisher With Oracle JDeveloper 10g

Oracle XML Publisher, Oracle's XSL-FO-based reporting tool, is available as a GUI as well as a set of core API components. In this paper, one learns how to use the FO Processor Engine, the XSL-FO Utility, and the PDF Document Merger. One will also get an overview of the Data Engine API, which generates an XML document from a database. The API uses an XML template to specify the SQL queries to the database as well as the structure of the generated XML document. Some of the Oracle XML Publisher APIs require RTF and PDF templates as inputs. To create an RTF template one needs Oracle XML Publisher Desktop, an add-in to Microsoft Word.