Re: Antw: New gda-report's DTD

[Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos hispalinux es>]

Rodrigo Moya escribió:

> Derek Neighbors wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> But this, IMO should go inside the report DTD. I haven't looked too much
> in the report's DTD, but I suppose, Carlos, you're having this in mind,
> or not?

Yes, but i don't know how make it, i need learn more about DTDs.