In order to convert the source files into a usable PDF, all the files must be combined together to form a single XML Data Package (XDP). This is accomplished by a process of stitching the forms together. Two kinds of files can be stitched:
xdp, representing a fragment of the larger formxfs, representing a prototype or stylesheet
Parts of the form that need to stitched together are indicated by the presence of the usehref attribute. These attributes can have a URI part and a Script Object Model (som) part. Only those that refer to an external document must be stitched together.
Stitching should be applied to
host templatesonly. These are the templates in the root of thexdp/directory.
A stitcher has been provided as part of the RBM. It is a XSLT3 script that takes as its input the template you wish to package. The output of the stitching process can be used as input to the XfaBuilder tool to generate the PDF.