The Reporting Problem

[Andre Garzia]

Hey Peter,

XSLT is really easy, it's nothing but XML with some special tags. Please,
follow the simple tutorial, you can do it in like one hour.

    http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/

With that you can generate, HTML, DOC, PDF, you can generate things to your
hearts content.

:D



> Andre's suggestion of XSLT is probably right, but its also probably beyond
> my limitations.  But the problem really is, how to generate the report in a
> format that some other package can use.  I had given up generating reports
> in a spreadsheet because as you start hitting tens of thousands of rows, it
> chokes.  Rev is much much faster.  But then the problem is, how to get
> stuff
> out of it.
>
> Take your point about a database.  Sqlite would probably be great for it.
> Andre is right about awk, its not very maintainable.
>
> Maybe we just keep rekeying.  Its not the end of the world, you just feel
> there has to be a better way.
>
>

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