Re: XML output to XSLT

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:02 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> It's generated in report_build() here:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/glom/glom/reports/report_builder.cc?view=markup
>
> And this calls GlomXslUtils::transform_and_open(), which you can see
> here:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/glom/glom/xsl_utils.cc?view=markup
>
> You should be able to add some code there to make it write out the XML
> to a temporary file, or just to stdout. You could use
> xmlpp::Document::write_to_string() or write_to_string_formatted(). 
>
> This code could be #ifdefed out, or it could act like the current
> --debug_sql command-line option.

Actually, looking at that code shows that it already outputs the XML to
stdout. So, the answer is: Start glom from a terminal and watch the
terminal when you generate a report.

> Of course, this XML format should be documented. For instance, on the
> Wiki. I haven't done that so far because I haven't felt 100% sure that
> it was an appropriate format. But I haven't thought of anything better.
>  
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