Subject: RE: Printing XML + XSLT (2nd try) From: "Tomas Lapienis" <tomas_l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 14:24:03 +0200 |
> > 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 It could be possible to generate totals.xml with totals data from original.xml using calculate.xsl and later use format.xsl with multisource (function: document()) xml data, i.e. original.xml and totals.xml for html output. Tomas XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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