> Yeah in short: Its a Cocoon Serializer. While I appreciate this > feedback, I personally have no use cases for the Serializer outside of > Cocoon. ??? you don't ;-) the use case is very simple: create a xls-file out of an gnumeric-file. ;-) don't see any cocoon stuff here. i guess that would be like m$ saying there is no use case for calculation outside excel. but ok. i guess i know what you mean.
>This makes it impossible for me to support a non-cocoon version >of the Serializer. It would take a motivated individual who knew what >to do in order to support such a project. My continued personal >interest is in generating reports via Cocoon and the HSSF Serializer. i would like to do that, but since i realy dont have any clue about the inner workings of cocoon this seems almost impossible for me at the moment. > Cool! Would you mind writing up a case study for POI? > http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/casestudies.html i'll see that i'll have time somewhere within the next 3-4 weeks (granted that the custumer oks this). > I'll look through what Sven did. My only concern is whether you'll end > up with Cocoon anyhow as your project scales up. this might be the case indeed. but at the moment and for the foreseeable future (3-6 month) this wont happen and so the discussion is a moot one. > Well one thing I don't recommend is generating the gnumeric format > directly once you know what you're > doing. Meaning come up with an interim format. this isn't possible either cause the invoice-format is still very young and there are a lot of changes going on for the next several months. it is impractical to let those changes be made by programmers. the people from the billing-dept. should do them but i simply cannot force them to "programm" a bill in some xml-format. the maximum i can give them is linux-box with gnumeric installed on it (and even this is not so simple since this is a windowsshop). on the otherhand transforming a given gnumeric-file into an stylesheet is realy no fun and very brittle to do. > makes it into a Gnumeric workbook. > > >but what i want to do later to is to create a pdf-file instead of an excel- > >file. i'll be using xsl-fo for that and i see some hard times coming to > >first create an xsl-fo file out of gnumeric. > > > > > I don't think it has to be if you do as above. as said before the only practical solution is to get an allready formated gnumeric-file from the billing-dept. > You prefer this to the Excel xml format? havent had a look on xls-xml. ciao robertj ------------------------------------------------------------ Robert Kuzelj Gaissacherstrasse 7 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 81371 Muenchen tel: 0177/5302230 the trinity of desirables of (software) architecture: Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas (marcus vitruvius 20 BC) strength, utility, beauty --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
