On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:31:19AM -0800, Mark Lundquist wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My application needs to be able to generate data in CSV format to 
> download to the application user.  What's the best way to do this?
> 
> My first guess would be to configure a TextSerializer in the sitemap 
> with name="csv" and mime-type="application/csv", then generate my CSV 
> wrapped in a SAX stream and pipe it through this.
> 
> Questions:
> 1) Will this work?
> 2) What about characters that are represented as entities in the SAX 
> stream?  Will the TextSerializer do what I want with those?
> 3) Is there a better way?
> 
> Thanks for any advice,
> Mark

I don't have time to check this for you right now , but you could
look at how the Cocoon presentation layer in xReporter
http://xreporter.cocoondev.org does this.  It supports CSV, fixed-
width text, etc.

--Tim Larson

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