I'm presently looking to modify the report system so that a semantic representation of the data can be returned, and wanted to get some feedback from anyone more familiar with the system (or languages involved). My personal goal is to allow for outputting XML, but rather than just modify the existing formatting in the reports to use that output I'm thinking of changing the report system so that there is a clearly defined gathering of data which is then passed to a renderer.
My thoughts are to represent each document as a data structure (which I'm calling docstruct) which consists of a vector full of named lists. This would then be complemented by a set or sets of functions in charge of populating the data (ultimately possibly updating the app data though that falls outside of "reports"), and a set or sets of functions which use the data in the structure to render a presentable form. The names within the structure would allow for self-documenting and a decent amount of attempted automatic behavior which could be selectively overridden (ideally having basic functionality by just creating an empty structure with names). Let me know of any feedback. -- Matt Whipple IT Consultant m...@mattwhipple.com 508-317-7435 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
