Re: Fwd: Make Report PDF

2012-03-20 Thread Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:55:43 -0300, Lance Java wrote: Sorry for the off topic conversation but I can't resist :) Me neither . . . And don't forget that I actually like FreeMarker very much. :) On the other hand, I'm not sure it has support for XPath selectors in the FreeMarker decla

Fwd: Make Report PDF

2012-03-20 Thread Lance Java
Sorry for the off topic conversation but I can't resist :) > On the other hand, I'm not sure it has support for XPath selectors in the FreeMarker declarative XML processing, which is usually the best approach for more complex XML structures. Freemarker supports XPath selectors... see here http://

Re: Fwd: Make Report PDF

2012-03-20 Thread Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:28:39 -0300, Lance Java wrote: Actually, XSLT makes sense when the source document is XML already. I disagree, both freemarker and XSLT need to parse the XML input into some form of DOM object before applying a transformation to it. Do you agree that XSLT templat

Fwd: Make Report PDF

2012-03-20 Thread Lance Java
> Actually, XSLT makes sense when the source document is XML already. I disagree, both freemarker and XSLT need to parse the XML input into some form of DOM object before applying a transformation to it. Do you agree that XSLT templates are far more verbose than Freemarker templates? > Sorry, La