Tony Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 04:21:09PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> The HTML is well formed, though, which should make building a filter >> easy if you know how the formatting works. ;) e.g.: > > Or applying an XSLT file to it?
The HTML reports are really XHTML, so that should be possible. I've never used XSLT myself, but I don't think it would be very hard. Hmm... with a little XLST + JavaScript it should be possible to create a report with a button that could toggle between showing everything and just showing the parts with missing coverage. That'd be slick. :) This thread has made me wonder about something: Would it be useful to have a raw XML report format? Done properly it could allow Devel::Cover to use it as the *only* report format, assuming that the distribution included tools for common transformations like text and HTML. Despite what Paul said about it being "fairly simple" to write a new backend, it's definitely not trivial. While I'm sure it's clear to him, I've found the underlying data structure and classes to be somewhat challenging to understand and keep straight in my head. I think that it would be a lot easier for Joe User to build something to transform XML than to write a new backend. -mjc
