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Re: [Exist-open] Embedding PDF from file system in webpage
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From: Claudius T. <cla...@gm...> - 2024-05-14 20:46:24
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Separate fileserver (see https://caddyserver.com/) for those big PDFs. On Tue, 14 May 2024, 23:18 Tony Corless via Exist-open, < exi...@li...> wrote: > Apologies for bothering people, as the answer to this perhaps should be > obvious to me. > > > > For a while I have been using a query, as below, to display PDF documents > with some header information that is stored as XML data in eXist. > > To date, the PDFs have been small and stored in the eXist database or > accessed from a remote server. > > > > Now I have some much larger PDF documents that ideally I will keep in the > local file system rather than in the database. > > To achieve that I need to change the source in the <embed> below to access > the document from the file system. > > > > While I assumed that would be trivial my attempts to date have failed. Any > pointer to the correct approach is welcome, as clearly I have misunderstood > something. > > > > (The file:exists function has confirmed that I have correct and accessible > files in the file system, I can read these but have failed to render them > as PDF.) > > > > > > xquery version "3.1"; > > declare option exist:serialize "method=html media-type=text/html"; > > (: declare variable $documentName := > request:get-parameter("documentName",()); :) > > > > let $documentName :="1021-COP" > > > > let $xmlCollection := > collection("/db/apps/controlledDocuments/data/current") > > let $document > :=$xmlCollection[./document/documentName=$documentName]/document/documentLink > > > > return > > <html> > > <body> > > <h1>Some info about {$documentName}</h1> > > <embed src='{$document}' > style="width:100%;height:90%;"></embed> > > </body> > > </html> > > > > > > Many thanks for any assistance. > > > > *Tony Corless* > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Exist-open mailing list > Exi...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/exist-open > |
