[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Printing XML + XSLT (2nd try)
> Imagine a bill, or an order form, with many columns and > more than a page. If I transform that into HTML, when the user prints maybe the > result don't fit the paper, and what about with many pages and I want to put > parcial totals at the bottom of every page. Can you see the problem? I'd be inclined to use XSLT to massage the data into a format that a report-writing package will accept, and then use the report-writer to create the HTML. Unfortunately there are lots of things that report writers have done for 30 years that XSLT can't do yet, and printing running totals at the bottom of each page is one of them. I'm not an expert on XSL Formatting Objects, but I don't see any evidence that that spec is tackling the problem either. XSL comes from the document handling tradition and not the data processing tradition. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
|
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|