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RE: [xsl] Parsing reports.

2010-04-26 06:59:54

A while ago, for a client, I wrote a little utility that allowed you to
describe an Excel spreadsheet, and it generated XSLT code to extract an XML
representation of the selected data. This handled quite a large class of
tabular data - but it was very much an unproductised in-house tool.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay  

-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Nesterovsky [mailto:vladimir(_at_)nesterovsky-bros(_dot_)com] 
Sent: 26 April 2010 12:51
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Parsing reports.

Hello!

I have many kinds of text reports that are output of some 
legacy programs.
These are tabular reports: titles, headers, footers, pages, 
details, totals, subtotals, an so on.

My task is to transform these reports into a structured data, 
and then feed these data to a contemporary report engine.

I'm trying to understand now, if it's worth to approach to 
the task from the xslt side.
Technically the task is solvable, however this would mean 
creation and support of many such report parsers within xslt.

If anybody have already dealt with similar task?
Any advices?
Any xslt support libraries?
Is it worth to deal with xslt here?
--
Vladimir Nesterovsky
http://www.nesterovsky-bros.com/




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