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Re: XSL-based report engines?
- From: "David B. Bitton" <david at codenoevil dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 00:30:49 -0500
- Subject: Re: [xsl] XSL-based report engines?
- Organization: Code No Evil
- References: <CEECIPKAFFCIAAKMEBJNGEPOGGAA.ross@webwolves.com>
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Have you tried the XSL designer in the latest version of XML Spy?
http://www.xmlspy.com/products_xsl.html
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David B. Bitton
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ross Lambert" <ross@webwolves.com>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 2:09 PM
Subject: [xsl] XSL-based report engines?
> Fellow XSL'ers,
>
> I'm a near-newbie and don't know if this is the right approach or not, but
> here goes...
>
> I implemented a rather simple web-based XSL reporting system for my
company.
> It works great, unfortunately now they want more. :-) They would like to
> allow customer service reps and eventually end users to be able to design
> their own reports. In the past, only the software development team could
do
> this (and it was all hardcoded in servlets, had to go through the formal
QA
> process, and had to wait until formal releases to push the new code...
> yuk!).
>
> My system is much faster and more flexible, but it still is not end-user
> friendly. I can deploy a new report in a couple hours, but I'm happy to
type
> XSL code and write SQL.
>
> Q1: Are there any commercial report designers out there that emit XSL? If
> so, would that be the way to go? We might be able to afford to license
> something that we embed within our product.
>
> Q2: Another option is to let the end-users customize several existing
> templates (double-click a placeholder graphic to upload their own, etc.).
> I'd still probably have to write an SQL generator, though. Is this the
> lesser of two evils?
>
> All advice welcome. Thanks in advance.
>
> == Ross ==
>
> Ross W. Lambert, Senior Software Engineer
> Who's Calling, Inc.
> www.whoscalling.com
>
>
>
>
>
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