Converting Pdf Documents To Xml Format; Converting To Xml Format Using Acrobat Javascript; The Saveasxml Plug-In - Adobe ACROBAT 7.0.5 SDK Manual

XML and the Acrobat SDK
8

Converting PDF Documents to XML Format

Co nve r t i n g P D F D o c u m e n t s t o X M L For m at
Because XML representation is the basis for the exchange of information with Web Services
and enterprise infrastructures, it is often useful to convert your PDF documents into XML
format.

Converting to XML Format Using Acrobat JavaScript

It is a straightforward process to do this using the
only performs the conversion to XML, but also to a number of other formats.
To convert your PDF document to a given format, you must determine the device-
independent path to which you will save your file, and the conversion ID used to save in the
desired format. For XML, the conversion ID is "com.adobe.acrobat.xml-1-00".
For more information, see the Acrobat JavaScript Scripting Guide and the Acrobat JavaScript
Scripting Reference.

The SaveAsXML Plug-in

SaveAsXML is a plug-in for Acrobat which extends the "Save as type" choices in the Save As
dialog box to allow a Tagged PDF document to be saved as a number of XML, HTML, or
similar text-based formats.
Mapping Tables are used to control the conversion process for the SaveAsXML feature. The
Mapping Tables are a script of hierarchically-organized directives written in a custom
language defined in XML syntax. This allows developers to create custom Mapping Tables
for formats other than those provided in this package.
Overview of the SaveAsXML Process
When the SaveAsXML plug-in registers itself with Acrobat, it inspects the set of XML files in
the MappingTables folder to determine the number of conversion services that are
available.
The MappingTables folder must be found in the same folder as the
Files in this folder are the only ones that are inspected as potential conversion services
supported by the plug-in. This folder may not contain any files with the
that are not Mapping Tables.
If the registration process finds the Root element and its menu-name attribute, it adds the
menu name to the list of file format choices available in the Save As dialog box. (The menu
name must be unique in order to avoid confusion by similarly identified entries in the Save
As dialog box's file formats. )
For more complete examples of the usage of these directives, see the Mapping Tables
distributed with SaveAsXML. Every directive that is currently supported has been used in
one or more of these tables.
76
object's method, which not
doc saveAs
SaveAsXML.ap
.xml
i file.
extension
Acrobat SDK User's Guide