[fpc-devel] fpdoc's RTF output

[Luiz Americo Pereira Camara]

Michael Van Canneyt escreveu:
>
>
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
>
>> Am 24.08.2010 12:23, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
>>> I do have the start of a reporting engine; However, I recently had a
>>> look at
>>> JasperReports, and want to rework what I have to use their XML 
>>> format as
>>> a start.
>>
>> I don't really know about JasperReports (I had a quick glance on 
>> Wikipedia), but what about using a open standard like XSL-FO ( 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects )? I'm asking 
>> this simply out of curiosity.
>
> I think XSL-FO can be used to describe the result, rather than 
> describe how
> to get to this result ?

Yes.

Although it's possible to get a report engine on top of it.

It would require a to use a XSLT to transform a xml data into a XSL-FO.

This would require some work:

- native XSLT processor like http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
- native XSL-FO "renderer" like http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/

Anyone?

For more info see:

http://www.w3schools.com/xslfo/xslfo_xslt.asp

For a report generator (in fact xsl-fo designer) see:

https://www.ecrion.com/Products/XFDesigner/Overview.aspx

http://www.antennahouse.com/product/designer/

Luiz