How to embed a document in HTML page?

Question

We would like to show the document (e.g. pptx, xlsx, docx, pdf, html) in a html page after retrieving it fro

Answer 1

Non-html content apart from images needs to be retrieved using an object, embed or iframe tag

1. iframe:
2. object/embed:

somepage.pdf could be somepage.jsp?filename=somepage&mimetype=application/pdf

Here is an interesting link How to Embed Microsoft Office or PDF Documents in Web Pages

and here is a stackoverflow search