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Facing issues while calling java method from xslt which uses fop

I'm using fop to convert xml to pdf, so for that I have written an xslt code.
In the same xslt, I have used java code but somehow I get an error stating nosuchmethodexception : couldn't find method org.apache.xml.utils.NodeVector.input([ExpressionContext,]).
But my java code is a user defined code which is in a different package.
My xml has local_curr attribute.
My java class name is XMLData.
Package is com.pdf
Java Method is input which takes a String value and returns a String
xslt code :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
xmlns:java="com.pdf.XMLData">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<!-- Defining Page Layout -->
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="A3-portrait"
page-height="29.7cm" page-width="40.0cm" margin="2cm">
<fo:region-body margin-bottom="20mm" />
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="A3-portrait">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%" border-width="1mm"
border-collapse="separate">
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell background-color="#F79F81"
border-width="0.1mm" border-style="solid">
<fo:block wrap-option="wrap" font-size="15pt"
padding="5pt" text-align="right">
<xsl:value-of select="java:input(#local_curr)" />
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</fo:table>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The problem is that #local_curr probably does not return the type your java method is expecting.
You need to parse it for example as a string
<xsl:value-of select="java:input(string(#local_curr))" />
Or as a number
<xsl:value-of select="java:input(number(#local_curr))" />
The NoSuchMethodException was thrown because no method was found with the given type as argument.

Thanks for the help.
It is resolved. Actually I have to add my jar file in the batch file of fop which resolved my problem.
Thanks...

javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Could not find function: unparsed-text

I am using Apache FOP for PDF generation.I want to use unparsed-text() function to read non-xml document in XSL file.
After writing that function i got this error.
This is my XSL file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
xmlns:f="Functions">
<xsl:variable name="properties" select="unparsed-text('file.properties')" as="xs:string"/>
<xsl:function name="f:getProperty" as="xs:string?">
<xsl:param name="key" as="xs:string"/>
<xsl:variable name="lines" as="xs:string*" select="
for $x in
for $i in tokenize($properties, '\n')[matches(., '^[^!#]')] return
tokenize($i, '=')
return translate(normalize-space($x), '\', '')"/>
<xsl:sequence select="$lines[index-of($lines, $key)+1]"/>
</xsl:function>
<xsl:template match=" EmployeeData">
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="simple"
page-height="20cm" page-width="10.5cm" margin-left="0.2cm"
margin-right="0.2cm">
<fo:region-body margin-top="0.5cm" />
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="simple">
<xsl:variable name="lang" select="language" />
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
From Properties File <xsl:value-of select="f:getProperty('language')"/>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
How can i remove this error? Or give me any alternative for that if possible.
Thank you.

The error suggests you are using an XSLT 1.0 processor to run the XSLT. unparsed-text is only supported by XSLT 2.0 processors like Saxon 9.

Unable to embed delimiter when converting XML to CSV using XSLT using Java

I am trying to convert XML to CSV using XSLT. I have seen many similar posts on this site, but wanted to mention specific requirement and the issue I am seeing in my code.
This is my well formed XML file content. Please note, I am getting this XML from the database as a string, so it is not formatted.
XML file
<myxml ver="1.0"><name>smile</name><email>test#gmail.com</email><phone_number/><job_title>Engineer</job_title><company_name>Stack Overflow</company_name><submission-datestamp>3/14/11 8:29 PM</submission-datestamp></myxml>
Here is the XSLT file
<?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="text"/>
<xsl:template match="myxml">
<xsl:for-each select="*" >
<xsl:if test="position() != last()">
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>,
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I am getting below CSV format content:
smile,
test#gmail.com,
,
Engineer,
Stack Overflow,
3/14/11 8:29 PM
Requirement is:
I need to display the header first
Comma separated list as in
smiletest#gmail.com,EngineerStack Overflow,3/14/11 8:29 PM
Can you please help me fix my code? The problem is in XSLT file.

You are getting the extra carriage returns because you have mixed-content inside of the template. The stylesheet assumes that the whitespace following the comma is significant. You can prevent that by putting your text inside of <xsl:text>. That tells the stylesheet which text is explicitly part of the output, so if there is nothing else left but whitespace, it is assumed to be insignificant.
I reworked the stylesheet slightly to be more of a "push style" stylesheet using xsl:apply-templates instead of xsl:for-each, and also added carriage-return at the end of each line:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates mode="header"/>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="myxml/*" mode="header">
<xsl:value-of select="local-name()"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="position() = last()">
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="myxml/*">
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="position() = last()">
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Produces the following output:
name,email,phone_number,job_title,company_name,submission-datestamp
smile,test#gmail.com,,Engineer,Stack Overflow,3/14/11 8:29 PM

Generate PDF from a big image using Apache FOP

I would like to generate a PDF from an image, using Apache FOP and XSLT. However, if image s bigger, then PDF document page, then it only gets as much space as it is available on the page (including right and bottom margin). So, part of the image is out of page bounds.
Is this possible to setup fop so that if image can't be fitted into the page it is automatically splitted into the multiple pages?
Here is my xslt template:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.1"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java"
xmlns:dp="http://www.dpawson.co.uk"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:f="Functions"
xmlns:xdt="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-datatypes"
exclude-result-prefixes="java">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" omit-xml-declaration="no" indent="yes" />
<xsl:param name="image-print-path" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="simpleA4"
page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21cm" margin-top="2cm"
margin-bottom="2cm" margin-left="2cm" margin-right="2cm">
<fo:region-body margin-top="20pt" margin-bottom="35pt" />
<fo:region-before extent=".5in"/>
<fo:region-after extent=".5in"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="simpleA4">
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before" text-align="left">
<fo:block font-size="10pt">
Print
</fo:block>
</fo:static-content>
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">
<fo:block font-size="10pt" text-align="left">
something else
</fo:block>
<!-- TODO: add current date, page number -->
</fo:static-content>
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block font-size="10pt" page-break-after="always">
<fo:external-graphic src="{$image-print-path}"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Doesn't look like there's anything in the spec that can format in the way you need. This leaves you with a few options:
check the graphic before you inject it into your XSL workflow and cut it up into a number of images to use across multiple pages
inspect the graphic to determine it's dimensions and create a page size big enough to contain it, and leave the slicing to printers
set content-width to scale-down-to-fit to show the entire graphic on a single page

I can't change my Font Family using Apache FOP

I am trying to use fop Quick Start Guide to print a simple PDF file from a simple XML file and it works fine. but when I change <name>Frank</name> to <name>امیررضا</name> (change name to other encoding) I get #### in my printed PDF. I search through the Internet and couldn't find any feasible solution. I use many config files here are some of my them:
I use this command for creating pdf:
fop -c cfg.xml -xml name.xml -xsl name2fo.xsl -pdf name.pdf
When I use this command I get below warning:
WARNING: xHeight value could not be determined. The font may not work as
Sep 15, 2011 9:15:37 AM org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener proce
WARNING: Glyph "╙" (0x633, afii57427) not available in font "Helvetica".
Sep 15, 2011 9:15:37 AM org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener proce
WARNING: Glyph "╘" (0x634, afii57428) not available in font "Helvetica".
1- name.xml contains:
<name>امیررضا</name>
2-name2fo.xsl contains:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<fo:root>
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="A4-portrait"
page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21.0cm" margin="2cm">
<fo:region-body/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="A4-portrait">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block>
Hello, <xsl:value-of select="name"/>!
</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
3- have try many different config file (cfg.xml).
3.1:
<fop version="1.0">
<renderers>
<renderer mime="application/pdf">
<fonts>
<substitutions>
<substitution>
<from font-family="Helvetica" />
<to font-family="SansSerif"/>
</substitution>
</substitutions>
<referenced-fonts>
<match font-family=".*"/>
</referenced-fonts>
<!-- register all the fonts found in a directory and all of its sub directories (use with care) -->
<directory recursive="true">G:\....\fop\fop-1.0\Core14_AFMs</directory>
<!-- automatically detect operating system installed fonts -->
<auto-detect/>
<font embed-url="C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\times.ttf">
<font-triplet name="Times New Roman" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>
</fonts>
</renderer>
</renderers>
</fop>
3.2:
<fop version="1.0">
<renderers>
<renderer mime="application/pdf">
<fonts>
<substitutions>
<substitution>
<from font-family="Helvetica" />
<to font-family="SansSerif"/>
</substitution>
</substitutions>
<referenced-fonts>
<match font-family=".*"/>
</referenced-fonts>
<!-- automatically detect operating system installed fonts -->
<auto-detect/>
</fonts>
</renderer>
</renderers>
</fop>
3.3: ......
The result output is:
Hello, #######!
Can anyone help me fix this?

Support for languages written with right-to-left scripts such as Arabic & Hebrew and full bidi support was added in Apache FOP 1.1. Based on the date of this question, an older Apache FOP version was used. For more information, see http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/complexscripts.html.

I have never used Apache FOP but I found this article that allows you to create multiple language PDF.
Creating Multiple Language PDFs using Apache FOP

I would recommend that you use HelveticaWorld thatcontains arabic characters too or if you create the FOP input dynamically, then you can use Velocity or Freemarker variables to store the Font name.

I solve the problem by add font-family in XSL code:
name2fo.xsl after changes contains:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<fo:root>
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="A4-portrait"
page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21.0cm" margin="2cm">
<fo:region-body/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="A4-portrait">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="Tahoma">
Hello, <xsl:value-of select="name"/>!
</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
But I still have problem which is my Farsi character printed in reverse order. I mean if I want to print "Hello" it was printed "oellH" (you can imagine Hello is written in Farsi character) and also have a second problem that is the character was printed separated.