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Oracle BI Fundamentals

This document provides an overview of an Oracle BI Essentials training on BI Publisher Fundamentals. The training covers an introduction to BI Publisher and XML standards, creating RTF templates using advanced techniques, constructing HTML and PDF documents using XML and XSLT, and an exercise on creating an XML document to hold table data. It also covers introducing XML concepts like DTD, schemas, namespaces and XPath, as well as testing templates using the BI Publisher Template Viewer.

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Oracle BI Fundamentals

This document provides an overview of an Oracle BI Essentials training on BI Publisher Fundamentals. The training covers an introduction to BI Publisher and XML standards, creating RTF templates using advanced techniques, constructing HTML and PDF documents using XML and XSLT, and an exercise on creating an XML document to hold table data. It also covers introducing XML concepts like DTD, schemas, namespaces and XPath, as well as testing templates using the BI Publisher Template Viewer.

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Oracle BI Essentials: BI

Publisher Fundamentals
Day One

• Introduction to BI Publisher
• Introduction to XML Standards
• Layout: Creating RTF Templates
• Using Advanced RTF Template Techniques

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Lets construct HTML document using XML and
XML Transformation document
 Using XML storing the data.

 Using XML Transformation Document (XSLT – Extensible


Stylesheet Language) converting XML document tags to HTML tags
and displaying data.

 There is also XSL-FO (Formatting Objects) using which we can also


give margin related information.
 If we mix XML + XSL + XSL-FO and give it a PDF generator a PDF
document can be constructed.

 The positive side is both XML and XSLT are worldwide standards
but a little complex.
 The negative side is XSL and XSL-FO are complex and bulky to
code and use.
 This job has been made simple using Oracle BI Publisher.
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Lets have a demo of generating PDF template
using BI Publisher – Template Viewer
 We will have to construct an RTF document with BI Publisher
placeholders

 Syntax of place holder is as below


<? ?>
 Within the placeholder blank space above should be replaced using
Xpath.

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Introduction to XML
 Understanding XML documents
 Understanding DTD and XML Schema
 Understanding Namespaces
 Understanding Xpath
 Understanding XSL

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Exercise
 Create an XML document to hold below table data, ensure that data
is not duplicated within XML document (eg. Department Name)

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Layout Creating RTF Templates

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Testing the created layout using Template Viewer
 Install Oracle BI Publisher desktop version on your machine
 Navigate to Start  Programs  Oracle BI Publisher Desktop 
Template Viewer
 Change the working directory to folder where you’ve kept the data
XML and RTF document with publisher placeholders
 Select RTF Templates radio button.
 Select the XML document and RTF document then click on ‘Start
Processing’ after choosing your desired output format.

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