reports, template/library proposal -- LAML

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Laimonas Vėbra <laimonas.vebra at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello All,
>
> If gnucash reporting is moving towards webkit (full featured html
> engine), shouldn't we consider using/choosing some kind of mature
> (html/xml), standards-aware „templating“ engine/solutions, such as
> LAML:
>
> http://www.cs.aau.dk/~normark/laml/
>
> instead of pseudo templating (unstable, unsteady, poor solution) such
> as eguile-gnc, which makes writing reports still complicated,
> inelegant.
> Don't get we wrong -- it (eguile-gnc) works, but it isn't going to
> work/evolve any better than before, and writing reports, reporting
> components is just hard, frustrating without some reasonable, common,
> solid, mature basis (library).
>
> Any thoughts, opinions?

HTML5 + CSS is the direction we seem to be heading, using e-guile
as the template rendering mechanism.  But I suspect any major report
re-writing is going to happen post-2.4.

> Thank you.

-derek

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