On 2011-07-07, at 21:48, Tim M wrote: > […] > Thoughts?
I like the idea of XML -> HTML + CSS + JavaScript plots. How about moving to a
completely declarative XML report, where we use XML tags to ask for things like
account names and balances, and using the Scheme (or Python) reporting engine
to replace the XML tags with actual values? That way, you can have something
like:
<report>
<title>Income Statement</title>
<subtitle>
<start_date/> to <end_date/>
</subtitle>
<filter type=“date”>
<from><start_date/></from>
<to><end_date/></to>
<tabular>
<account_group name=“income”/>
<account_group name=“expenses”/>
<account title=“Net Profit (Loss)”>
<add>
<account_group_balance name=“income”/>
<account_group_balance name=“expenses”/>
</add>
</account>
</tabular>
</filter type=“date”>
</report>
So people can be given a set of XML reporting ‘primitives’, and combine them in
different ways to write different reports.
My 2c,
Yawar
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