RE: [gnome-db] Re: Multiple queries in report stuff

[Santi Camps <santi gnome-db org>]

El jue, 23-01-2003 a las 13:01, Daniel Morgan escribió:
> I have to agree with Rodrigo, I like the idea that the output of the report
> be XML. This way, any  plug-in could be made to transform it to something
> else, such as,
> - print to printer via postscript or gnome-print
> - HTML via a XSLT provided by the user
> - HTML using the GNOME-DB Reporting software's defaults
> - PDF (Adobe Acrobat)
> - RTF - Rich Text Format
> - GNOME Office Documents, such as, Abiword or Gnumeric
> - etc...
> 

Right, XML will be the default output format.


> Also, the GNOME-DB Reports don't have to be used for just Reports, but
> templates for Letters or other type of documents which must be dynamically
> generated.
> 
> I would like to make a suggestion that the "database" functionality in the
> Reporting engine be optional.  There can be multiple sources of data, such
> as, XML, CSV files, or Gnumeric spreadsheets.  And another source of data
> could come from the user application that starts the reporting process via
> the GDA report API. Once the reporting process has started, the reporting
> engine can fire off events (signals or callbacks?) and the user application
> responds to them by filling in the blanks and sending the resulting data to
> the reporting engine.  I don't know how this could be done; however, for
> complex reports, much of the logic for a given report should be in a user
> application.  This may even include the SQL too.
> 

Humm, this is really a different way to see the question, and it could
be very interesting.  I will think on it.

Cheers

Santi Camps