What
is the $GL you are using? We are using UDS (Forte 4GL) and have no problems when
using FOP. One thing that you have to keep in mind is that xsl-fo is intended to
provide a "presentation layer " for data and not to be a report engine (although
you can write one using xsl-fo for formatting your
data)
>> Can xsl-fo handle
headers/subheaders/footers/subfooters/totals/subtotals/control breaks and so
forth?
Yes, but for totals/subtotals you have to do
it manually. (as far as I know)
>>Can xsl-fo handle line
drawing?
Yes. Even image importing...
Hope
this helps....
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Sagan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 13 November 2002 10:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: xsl-fo as a report writer
Hi,
I am an analyst/programmer working for a small data processing application service provider. We currently use a proprietary 4GL as a report writer. Sadly the report writer in this 4GL is quite buggy. We have reported these bugs to the 4GL vendor but they have said that they have no intention to fix any of the bugs with their report writer module.
The 4GL can export data in xml format.
My intention is to evaluate xsl-fo/xsl to see how well it can render this data to the printed page.
My questions are:
Can xsl-fo handle headers/subheaders/footers/subfooters/totals/subtotals/control breaks and so forth?
Can xsl-fo handle line drawing?
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Bob Walsh
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