Re: Antw: New gda-report's DTD

[Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos hispalinux es>]

Derek Neighbors escribió:

> > of course! the reports should be dynamic, not as the people in
> > metaphrast do. Although, we could have an option to store the output in
> > a file, so that it can be viewed later. But IMO the data should come
> > from the database on-the-fly.
>
> GNUe is doing something where you have an xml template that holds how you
> want your report to look independent of data, basically what you would see
> in teh designer.
>
> Then it would be ran through an engine to populate it with data.  Where it
> would create an xml file with the data and teh formating.  We were
> thinking of then running this through a customized Jade.  Which gives us
> postscript, pdf, html, rtf out of the box.
>
> > > I don't know if this should be correct. Why you want to save the report
> > > query in a XML file? Why not save it only in RAM ?
>
> I think we planned on saving the formatting on disk, and making saving the
> output optional.  So it would be all ram if you wanted, but if it was
> report people wanted over and over without data change you could save for
> archval.
>
> With this architecture we could actual have basis for EDI exports and
> other B2B exchanges if done correctly.
>
> > another option we could have. I think gnome-print generates Postscript,
> > so it should be quite easy to convert to other formats.
> >
>
> Once again a gnome only solution is not very prudent.
>

As I said you before, we are talking about the gnome part of the report
engine, not the library engine. Please take care that is a more uniform way to
present an application to the end user, isn't it?


>
> -derek