On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Chris Travers <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:30 PM, John Locke <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Drupal 7 has been addressing :-P these issues with an "addressfield"
> module
> > ( http://drupal.org/project/addressfield ), which aims to incorporate
> the
> > flexibility of xNAL - http://xml.coverpages.org/xnal.html .
>
> Interesting idea. I am all for incorporating work of others into
> LedgerSMB. However, I am not sure how this would be done since I
> doubt our invoices, check printing, etc. will ever move off TT/LaTeX.
> it seems to me we'd have to find out what they are doing regarding
> address formats and convert these into TT snippets to be used.
Chris and I evaluated xNAL this afternoon and while it seems to be a very
good tool to help design a schema for storing names and addresses, it
doesn't seem to concern itself with actual representation of address data.
Some of the links enumerated by Havard elsethread do do that. Going over
the examples provided by BitBoost.com, we've come up with the following
solution:
We think about creating a default address template and adding the option to
add a template per country.
When producing an address, the template (either the default or the country
specific one) would be processed by template toolkit to fill out name,
street, etc. Then the result will be post-processed to remove
any white-space-only lines from the output.
The end result being an opaque array of lines to be printed on an envelope,
invoice or other document -- without the need to build the
same intelligence into every template.
Would this be a suitable solution to most situations you can imagine using
LedgerSMB?
Bye,
Erik.
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