AFP2PDF command As seen before, the conversion function is called automatically from OnDemand. For different purposes, such as creating the image map file or testing the conversion result, you might use the afp2pdf command. See the AFP2PDF transform documentation for details about the afp2pdf command parameters.
9.2.3 AFP2XML: converting AFP to XML AFP2XML is an IBM Services Offering that generates XML documents from AFP files. It contains two modules: buildICT This is a Windows-based GUI used to define XML attribute and value data. Within the interface, the user opens a representative AFP document, selects items on the display, and defines controls on those items. This module is available on Windows. afp2xml This is a Java executable that generates the XML file from the input AFP file and the control file defined using the buildICT. There is also a user exit available that allows more sophisticated AFP processing. This module is available on Windows, AIX, Sun Solaris, and z/OS. The Linux and HP-UX versions will be available before the end of 2006. (Contact your IBM representative for more up-to-date information). The AFP2XML GUI displays the document similarly to its print output. It allows the user to select Triggers and Attributes and define parsing rules without requiring any specific AFP knowledge. You can extract the significant data from your AFP file and place it into an XML format, which is a more interchangeable format. The AFP document can be retrieved from OnDemand using one of the ODWEK APIs and then converted to XML using the Java or C API. The XML file can be manipulated for any use of the available information in this interchangeable format.
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