[gnome-db] papyrus reporting engine

[Andrew Hill <dru treshna com>]

I'm not sure if any of you are interested or not but i've recently 
released the XML based reporting engine I did under the GPL.  If you've 
developed a xml reporting engine then it proberly doens't matter, but if 
you havn't we could merge it into code base.

Papyrus is quite stable and been used in production envoriments for half 
a year now.  It supports mysql and postgresql. It doens't support 
gnome-db, but it would be easy to add support for it.  It just uses a 
library plugin envirment where you write a library that wrapper around 
gnome-db calls, place it in the right directory, and it has gnome-db 
support.

The process that it works on is a 3 phase
Resolve all database and function calls in xml file, so only text is in 
the xml file.
Generate a latex file from the xml file (if you use latex engine, could 
use html or ansi engine instead).
Then convert latex file to ps, pdf etc.

http://papyrus.treshna.com



At the moment I'm relooking at the sql parser I wrote a while ago for 
gnome-db. I'm not sure if you guys used or not.  Or have done much 
changes.