[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Yeah in short: Its a Cocoon Serializer. While I appreciate this >>feedback, I personally have no use cases for the Serializer outside of >>Cocoon. >> >> >??? you don't ;-) >the use case is very simple: create a xls-file out of an gnumeric-file. ;-) >don't see any cocoon stuff here. i guess that would be like m$ saying >there is no use case for calculation outside excel. >but ok. i guess i know what you mean. > > I mean currently, I don't personally have any uses for the serializer outside of Cocoon. HA, I'll be writing that Excel calculation engine soon.
> > >>This makes it impossible for me to support a non-cocoon version >>of the Serializer. It would take a motivated individual who knew what >>to do in order to support such a project. My continued personal >>interest is in generating reports via Cocoon and the HSSF Serializer. >> >> >i would like to do that, but since i realy dont have any clue about >the inner workings of cocoon this seems almost impossible for me at the >moment. > > Look at the StateTax2 sample. under Welome->Legacy Formats. > > >>Cool! Would you mind writing up a case study for POI? >> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/casestudies.html >> >> >i'll see that i'll have time somewhere within the next >3-4 weeks (granted that the custumer oks this). > > Cool! Well tell them that I'll send them a T-Shirt (yourself as well) once we decide on a logo and I get the shirts printed. > > >>I'll look through what Sven did. My only concern is whether you'll end >>up with Cocoon anyhow as your project scales up. >> >> >this might be the case indeed. but at the moment and for the foreseeable >future (3-6 month) this wont happen and so the discussion is a moot one. > > humm.. >>Well one thing I don't recommend is generating the gnumeric format >>directly once you know what you're >>doing. Meaning come up with an interim format. >> >> >this isn't possible either cause the invoice-format is still very >young and there are a lot of changes going on for the next several >months. it is impractical to let those changes be made by programmers. >the people from the billing-dept. should do them but i simply cannot >force them to "programm" a bill in some xml-format. the maximum >i can give them is linux-box with gnumeric installed on it (and even >this is not so simple since this is a windowsshop). > > Wha? Its not stored in the database? You see with XSP/ESQL, you could query it from the database, output XML, transform it via your stylesheets and serialize it via HSSF Serializer. How are you currently getting them out in XML? >on the otherhand transforming a given gnumeric-file into an stylesheet >is realy no fun and very brittle to do. > > Look at the HSSF Serializer doc that explains what it actually cares about. > > >>makes it into a Gnumeric workbook. >> >> >> >>>but what i want to do later to is to create a pdf-file instead of an >>> >>> >excel- > > >>>file. i'll be using xsl-fo for that and i see some hard times coming to >>>first create an xsl-fo file out of gnumeric. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I don't think it has to be if you do as above. >> >> >as said before the only practical solution is to get an allready formated >gnumeric-file from the billing-dept. > > humm... > > >>You prefer this to the Excel xml format? >> >> >havent had a look on xls-xml. > >ciao robertj > >------------------------------------------------------------ >Robert Kuzelj >Gaissacherstrasse 7 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >81371 Muenchen tel: 0177/5302230 > >the trinity of desirables of (software) architecture: >Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas (marcus vitruvius 20 BC) >strength, utility, beauty > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Please check that your question has not already been answered in the >FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
