Presentation: "XML Publisher"
Speaker(s): Gordon Crump, Oracle

"Oracle XML Publisher is a new java based product available within the technology stack of the e-Business suite. It provides end users with a template-based, easy-to-use publishing solution; based on standard, well-known technologies and tools so users can take advantage of it easily and rapidly develop and maintain report formats.

XML Publisher technology is based on the W3C XSL-FO standard to transform XML data into an FO object; this contains both data and formatting information that can then be further transformed to an output format such as PDF.

Utilizing a set of familiar desktop tools such as Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word users can create and maintain their own report formats based on development delivered xml data extracts. XML Publisher will then convert these documents to the XSL-FO format.

Users can also obtain 3rd party provided PDF forms e.g. government tax forms and merge xml data from development teams to fill the forms with the required data prior to printing. "