From 348b4fc4fce0897ad338a865ba0fedf0e4808920 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linas Vepstas Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 23:18:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update on reports status git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@2374 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd --- doc/html/C/projects.html | 33 ++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/html/C/projects.html b/doc/html/C/projects.html index 222027b033..5ee37ca8b0 100644 --- a/doc/html/C/projects.html +++ b/doc/html/C/projects.html @@ -672,20 +672,6 @@ postscript. These should be easy to customize. Ideally, even novice users should be able to create custom reports. -

Other output format possibilities include SGML and Extensible - Markup Language - XML. In the long run, these are - preferable to HTML, since DSSSL tools such as Jade (James DSSSL - Engine) can be used to convert to RTF, Postscript, etc. - Add to this the consideration that XML is the basis for the - Document Object Model, - which is being integrated into many web-based applications, - and we can see that XML is an increasingly significant - format as we look to the future.

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The Report Generator should be a separate but "dockable" subsystem of the whole. That is, it should be possible to run the report generator in a stand-alone, read-only @@ -700,7 +686,7 @@ using Guile.

Generated reports should be exportable to other gnome - systems using bonbo. Reports should also be exportable to + systems using bonobo. Reports should also be exportable to the gnumeric spreadsheet (possibly by writing out gnumeric file format??)

@@ -741,6 +727,23 @@
  • Heavy discussion by matt martin, Robert Merkel ...
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  • The following technologies were rejected/unused mostly + because they were too complex, didn't hang together technologies: + SGML and Extensible + Markup Language - XML. In the long run, these are + preferable to HTML, since DSSSL tools such as Jade (James DSSSL + Engine) can be used to convert to RTF, Postscript, etc. + Add to this the consideration that XML is the basis for the + Document Object Model, + which is being integrated into many web-based applications, + and we can see that XML is an increasingly significant + format as we look to the future. +
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