On 10/04/13 11:42pm, Robert Huber @ 7r wrote:
Another thought (you mentioned that you output PDF) is that you could easily
create an XSLT to take the Cayenne Model and turn it into an html report. Happy
to assist with that since I've worked on a lot of xslt now.
As there seems to be no Print… menu, this would may be help to get an
ER-Diagram to print. How do you do it?
The general principle is this:
1 create an xslt file
2 run a tool [1] and feed it the cayenne model and the xslt file as the two
inputs
3 out comes the html
4 mix with a little css to make it pretty
Of course the real magic is in the xslt file itself. If you have a web designer
available to you, work with them on creating an html file example which
demonstrates what you want. Creating the xslt itself is usually quite simple
and there are tools to help [2]. If you create the html example, I'd be happy
to work with you on the xslt.
Remember, this can only display the information in the model file. So we aren't
going to have a pretty graph with lines between the classes unless you fed it
to a tool like graphviz. [3] I don't know much about that. The sort of html
report I describe above is not that.
[1] http://saxon.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://www.oxygenxml.com/
[3] http://www.graphviz.org/
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