PDF Merge according to XML Config

Create JAVA program to read an XML input file and merge PDF's according to the XML file eg <Data> <item> <pos>1</pos> <action> <type>merge</type> <orient>portrait</orient> <pages>6</pages> <deleteinput>true</deleteinput><output>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</output> <input> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> </input> </action> </item> <item> <pos>2</pos> <action> <type>merge</type> <orient>portrait</orient> <pages>11</pages> <deleteinput>true</deleteinput> <output>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</output> <input> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> <page>C:\temp\[login to view URL]</page> </input> </action> </item> </Data> There may be numerous items in the XML. The java is to be coded so that the type is able to select different functions eg a merge function (I may have a split funciton in the future). The merge function must read page width and height and be able to orientate landscape of portrait. The library to use is ASPOSE PDF JAVA (I don't want to use anything else) I have had a quick look at the library it is very much possible to merge and rotate. Eg [login to view URL] pdfDocument2 = new [login to view URL]("Z:/Code_JavaPDF/[login to view URL]"); PageCollection pageCollection1 = [login to view URL](); int protate1 = pageCollection1.get_Item(1).getRotate(); double pheight1 = pageCollection1.get_Item(1).getArtBox().getHeight(); double pwidth1 = pageCollection1.get_Item(1).getArtBox().getWidth(); pageCollection1.get_Item(1).setRotate(0); //0 1 2 3' PageCollection pageCollection2 = [login to view URL](); int protate2 = pageCollection2.get_Item(1).getRotate(); double pheight2 = pageCollection2.get_Item(1).getArtBox().getHeight(); double pwidth2 = pageCollection2.get_Item(1).getArtBox().getWidth(); pageCollection2.get_Item(1).setRotate(0); //0 1 2 3' protate2 = pageCollection2.get_Item(1).getRotate(); // Add the pages of the source document to the target document [login to view URL]().add(pageCollection2); // Save the concatenated output file (the target document) [login to view URL]("Z:/Code_JavaPDF/[login to view URL]"); If you wanted to be tricky you could use SAXON [login to view URL] to process the XML but this isn't really needed. Cheers Adam