Re: [ANN] GroupingTransformer

2003-02-05 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Bruno Dumon wrote, On 05/02/2003 21.52: On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 20:25, Hunsberger, Peter wrote: [...] Again, I don't really see an issue doing this with XSLT. And I didn't wrote it's not possible, but in my eyes it would be easier, and probably a lot faster when done in Java (though I still

RE: [ANN] GroupingTransformer

2003-02-05 Thread Bruno Dumon
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 20:25, Hunsberger, Peter wrote: [...] > > Well, as I pointed out XSLT is Turing complete so anything is possible. Yeah, but I think there's a reason we're not programming in Turing-machine like languages... > For > some people XSLT Extensions may start to make a lot of se

RE: [ANN] GroupingTransformer

2003-02-05 Thread Hunsberger, Peter
>> Grouping is a standard XSLT problem. It's not real trivial, it >> usually requires a knowledge of keys, but it's not all that hard >> either. > > True - but in the courses I teach, a lot of students do not get across > the multi-level grouping hurdle. Could be because of my skills as a > t

RE: [ANN] GroupingTransformer

2003-02-05 Thread Hunsberger, Peter
>> > * writing the config file for the GroupingTransformer is less work >> > than doing the same thing in XSLT. >> >> Grouping is a standard XSLT problem. It's not real trivial, it >> usually requires a knowledge of keys, but it's not all that hard >> either. > > though you'll have to rewrite

Re: [ANN] GroupingTransformer

2003-02-05 Thread Steven Noels
Hunsberger, Peter wrote: Grouping is a standard XSLT problem. It's not real trivial, it usually requires a knowledge of keys, but it's not all that hard either. True - but in the courses I teach, a lot of students do not get across the multi-level grouping hurdle. Could be because of my skill

RE: [ANN] GroupingTransformer

2003-02-05 Thread Bruno Dumon
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 17:17, Hunsberger, Peter wrote: > >> Bruno Dumon wrote: > >> > Based on some code from the xReporter project, I created a new > >> > transformer for Cocoon that can do grouping and summary calculation > >> > of table-like data (such as the data that comes out of the > >> >

RE: [ANN] GroupingTransformer

2003-02-05 Thread Hunsberger, Peter
>> Bruno Dumon wrote: >> > Based on some code from the xReporter project, I created a new >> > transformer for Cocoon that can do grouping and summary calculation >> > of table-like data (such as the data that comes out of the >> > SQLTransformer). The grouping to be performed is described in a

Re: [ANN] GroupingTransformer

2003-02-05 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Ugo Cei wrote, On 05/02/2003 14.39: Bruno Dumon wrote: I've never tried to do things like grouping and calculating summaries in XSLT, but I think that: * writing the config file for the GroupingTransformer is less work than doing the same thing in XSLT. * calculating things like averages, s

Re: [ANN] GroupingTransformer

2003-02-05 Thread Ugo Cei
Bruno Dumon wrote: I've never tried to do things like grouping and calculating summaries in XSLT, but I think that: * writing the config file for the GroupingTransformer is less work than doing the same thing in XSLT. * calculating things like averages, sums, min and max values is a lot easier

Re: [ANN] GroupingTransformer

2003-02-05 Thread Bruno Dumon
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:11, Ugo Cei wrote: > Bruno Dumon wrote: > > Based on some code from the xReporter project, I created a new > > transformer for Cocoon that can do grouping and summary calculation of > > table-like data (such as the data that comes out of the SQLTransformer). > > The groupin

Re: [ANN] GroupingTransformer

2003-02-05 Thread Ugo Cei
Bruno Dumon wrote: Based on some code from the xReporter project, I created a new transformer for Cocoon that can do grouping and summary calculation of table-like data (such as the data that comes out of the SQLTransformer). The grouping to be performed is described in a configuration file. This

Re: [ANN] GroupingTransformer

2003-02-05 Thread Steven Noels
Bruno Dumon wrote: The transformer itself and the xReporter code on which it depends are all released under Apache style licenses. We felt it as being inappropriate to add it directly to the Cocoon code base because it requires two extra (xreporter-related) jars, and I've been whining enough

[ANN] GroupingTransformer

2003-02-05 Thread Bruno Dumon
Hi all, Based on some code from the xReporter project, I created a new transformer for Cocoon that can do grouping and summary calculation of table-like data (such as the data that comes out of the SQLTransformer). The grouping to be performed is described in a configuration file. This transformer