update on reports status

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Linas Vepstas 2000-05-24 23:18:35 +00:00
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postscript. These should be easy to customize. Ideally,
even novice users should be able to create custom reports.
<p>Other output format possibilities include <a href=
"http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/">SGML</a> and <a href=
"http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/xml.html">Extensible
Markup Language - XML.</a> In the long run, these are
preferable to HTML, since <a href=
"http://www.jclark.com/dsssl/">DSSSL</a> tools such as <a
href="http://www.jclark.com/jade/">Jade (James DSSSL
Engine)</a> can be used to convert to RTF, Postscript, etc.
Add to this the consideration that XML is the basis for the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/DOM/">Document Object Model,</a>
which is being integrated into many web-based applications,
and we can see that XML is an increasingly significant
format as we look to the future.</p>
<p>The Report Generator should be a separate but "dockable"
subsystem of the whole. That is, it should be possible to
run the report generator in a stand-alone, read-only
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using Guile.</p>
<p>Generated reports should be exportable to other gnome
systems using bonbo. Reports should also be exportable to
systems using bonobo. Reports should also be exportable to
the gnumeric spreadsheet (possibly by writing out gnumeric
file format??)</p>
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<li>Heavy discussion by matt martin, Robert Merkel
...</li>
<li>The following technologies were rejected/unused mostly
because they were too complex, didn't hang together technologies:
<a href= "http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/">SGML</a> and <a href=
"http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/xml.html">Extensible
Markup Language - XML.</a> In the long run, these are
preferable to HTML, since <a href=
"http://www.jclark.com/dsssl/">DSSSL</a> tools such as <a
href="http://www.jclark.com/jade/">Jade (James DSSSL
Engine)</a> can be used to convert to RTF, Postscript, etc.
Add to this the consideration that XML is the basis for the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/DOM/">Document Object Model</a>,
which is being integrated into many web-based applications,
and we can see that XML is an increasingly significant
format as we look to the future.
</li>
</ul>
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