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[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

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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...
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>(a) an established way of specifying such instructions?
>     something like a logical table structure model?
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>(b) an engine that can execute these instructions.
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>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...)
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>- Markus


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