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A while ago, for a client, I wrote a little utility that allowed you to describe an Excel spreadsheet, and it generated XSLT code to extract an XML representation of the selected data. This handled quite a large class of tabular data - but it was very much an unproductised in-house tool. Regards, Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ http://twitter.com/michaelhkay > -----Original Message----- > From: Vladimir Nesterovsky [mailto:vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 26 April 2010 12:51 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Parsing reports. > > Hello! > > I have many kinds of text reports that are output of some > legacy programs. > These are tabular reports: titles, headers, footers, pages, > details, totals, subtotals, an so on. > > My task is to transform these reports into a structured data, > and then feed these data to a contemporary report engine. > > I'm trying to understand now, if it's worth to approach to > the task from the xslt side. > Technically the task is solvable, however this would mean > creation and support of many such report parsers within xslt. > > If anybody have already dealt with similar task? > Any advices? > Any xslt support libraries? > Is it worth to deal with xslt here? > -- > Vladimir Nesterovsky > http://www.nesterovsky-bros.com/
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