On Sun, 21 Nov 1999 15:03:06 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
"Rob Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>While I've put my $0.02 on everything else, I'll add that I'd really like to
>see the native format of reports to be text (preferably comma delimited).
>One could site all the unix-philosophy reasons for doing it this way, but
>the bottom line for me is that I can then use any spreadsheet to format it
>however I want.
I'd say that there are two options:
a) Native format is text, and preferably *TAB* delimited, with
formatting compatible with /RDB or nosql.
See URL below...
This may not cope with inherently hierarchical material well,
but allows:
- Easy importing into tools like spreadsheets
- Reprocessing using /RDB or nosql to build more complex reports
- Dead simple parsing using Any Scripting Language
b) Native format is XML, using some well known DTD.
The only well-known one that leaps to mind is the Gnumeric
form, so that data would get pushed out into a spreadsheet.
I actually think I'd bias towards /RDB as the native format; that's
not quite as flexible, but is guaranteed to be easy to push out to
external tools.
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