Dear Joerg,
Thanks for the reply.
What's the input, what iscomplex, where is the data stored and so on
Input is in the form of xml which is generated at run time whose structure is
known.We have around 300 forms with different layouts. Part of a report will be in 2
column layout and the next part can be in 3 column layout. We only need a solution for
print ready pdf reports since the input from is in html. ( We have already haveclasses
to generate xml from the input data ).
Now we are keeping separate style sheets for each report with some
namingconventions and link them at run time wth the xml string to produce pdf using
FOP APIs. We are looking a way to avoid keeping individual style sheets
for each and every report.What we have in mind is to have a Database Schema to store
the xsl fo layout information and wirte Java Classes which will glue the pieces
together. Is there a much elegant way to do this thing using coccoon and few style
sheets ? Some reports are very complex and i am now in a search to find a DB schema to
store the layout information . Can you guide me to some links or resouces regarding
this issue ?
Expecting your reply,
thanks and regards,
-- Kannan
- Original Message -
From: Joerg Heinicke
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:58:50 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dynamic , individual xsl generation
On 10.04.2004 11:48, Kannan V wrote:
Dear All,
I have a project ( jsp and sevlets ) in which I am using xml
and xslt to generate very complex reports.Althogther there are about
300 reports. I am using one xsl file for data input page and another
for print ready report. ( html only ). So I have to store 600 xsl files
for 300 reports !!.
One stylesheet for each page is indeed not handable. We started our
first Cocoon project with this approach - but with far less than 300
stylesheets, maybe 25. For current projects we only use one stylesheet
that fits all. The input must be more structured then of course.
I am trying to replace this framework with cocoon and fop ( for
print ready pdf ). Is it possible to generate complex, individual reports
using cocoon dynamically ? That is , I want to avoid storing the style shhets
statically in the server. ( instead, have as database design to store the xsl-fo
information for each report ) If there are any cocoon gurus around, please
reply about the feasibility of this project. ( which framework to use
like jsp , xsp..
Yes, Cocoon sounds perfect for this job. For details some more
information is probably needed. What's the input, what is complex,
where is the data stored and so on. For pure data retrieval XSP might be
sufficient (ESQL [1]). I would not recommend JSP for low support reasons.
Joerg
[1] http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/xsp/esql.html
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