On Thursday 10 November 2005 12:00 am, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > There's no inherent reason why gnucash has to do this XSL work directly -
> > it could be handed over to a perl or bash script. OK it might be nice to
> > do it ourselves but that just means gnucash has to have some way of
> > controlling or predicting / finding the stylesheets to use and further
> > encourages the user to believe that it is *our* collective role as
> > gnucash developers to keep those stylesheets updated with each budget
> > cycle - across all financial and geographic boundaries. IMHO, that is a
> > task to which we are currently not well suited.
>
> True, but I see no reason why not to write the code in gnucash to
> take the output XML and run it through a user-defined XSL template.

Yes, that makes sense.

> However I agree that we should make it 
> clear in the UI that WE are not responsible for the XSL templates.

Absolutely! :-)

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