Docmosis

Hi Rustyspoone.

There's no built-in support directly for XML data extraction in the 2.0 release. Your current options are:
1) Traverse your XML document and build the structure yourself (code example below)
2) Implement your own implementation of the DataProvider interface that extracts the data from your XML documents

We have this as an outstanding enhancement. If enough people are interested in such a feature we can raise the priority to get it released earlier.

Here's a complete example that loads an XML file, builds the data structure, and renders a document from it

   public static void main (String argv []) throws Exception
   {
	// Load the XML document
	DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
	DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
	String xmlfile="C:/myproject/customers.xml";
	Document doc = docBuilder.parse (new File(xmlfile));
	doc.getDocumentElement ().normalize ();
	
	// convert the XML document into data for Docmosis
	MemoryDataProvider dp = buildFromXML(doc);
	
	// optionally add more data
	DataProviderBuilder dpb = new DataProviderBuilder(dp);
	dpb.add("time", new Date().toString());
	
	// render the tempate (in.doc) with the XML document data
	File in = new File("c:/myproject/in.doc");
	File out = new File("c:/myproject/out.doc");
	try {
		SystemManager.initialise();
		DocumentProcessor.renderDoc(in, out, dp);    	
	} finally {
		SystemManager.release();
	}
    }
    
    public static MemoryDataProvider buildFromXML(org.w3c.dom.Document doc)
    {
    	return buildFromXML(doc.getChildNodes(), new MemoryDataProvider());
    }
    
    private static MemoryDataProvider buildFromXML(NodeList nodes, MemoryDataProvider dp)
    {
    	if (nodes == null) {
    		return null;
    	}
    	
    	int len = nodes.getLength();
    	for(int i=0; i < len; i++) {
    		Node node = nodes.item(i);
    		
    		if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
    			if (node.getChildNodes().getLength() == 1 && node.getFirstChild().getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
    				dp.setString(node.getNodeName(), node.getFirstChild().getNodeValue());
    			} else {
    				dp.addDataProvider(node.getNodeName(), buildFromXML(node.getChildNodes(), new MemoryDataProvider()));
    			}
    		}
    	}
    	
    	return dp;
    }

Hope that helps.