GNUe Reports Taking Shape
16th April 2002
Nearly a year after initial code check-ins for the Reporting Engine we are starting to see some serious fruit. We are getting ready to ramp up for the first release of the reporting engine!!
First you start out with an XML markup report definition (grd):
http://gnuenterprise.org/~dneighbo/hold/monthly.grd
Then it gets processed by the reporting engine which populates an xml output file with data:
http://gnuenterprise.org/~dneighbo/hold/monthly.xml
At which point it can then be transformed into many different output formats:
HTML : http://gnuenterprise.org/~dneighbo/hold/monthly.html
Text : http://gnuenterprise.org/~dneighbo/hold/monthly.txt
It is worth noting that the engine currently supports multiple ouput devices as well as formats for example you can send the report to email, fax, printer or file!
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