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Subject: generic table transform engine
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I am building a system that allows end-users to define how tables should be
built dynamically based on XML data.
The tables are fairly complex and involve extensive grouping (row/column
spans) as well as crosstabs.
Does anyone know of...

(a) an established way of specifying such instructions?
    something like a logical table structure model?

(b) an engine that can execute these instructions.

I was thinking about an approach where a template turns those
table-building-instructions into a table-generation-template, which then
transforms the source XML data into e.g. HTML.
Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated! (also non-XSLT solutions...)

- Markus