Using Standard (Valid) HTML Code According to w3.org

[Christian Stimming]

Am Mittwoch, 13. April 2011 schrieb John Ralls:
> On Apr 13, 2011, at 6:57 AM, Phil Longstaff wrote:
> > If this is for trunk, I'd prefer that we *don't* just fix the current
> > scheme code.   We really need to decide what we plan to do with reports
> > for 2.6.  We have our current scheme reports.  We have a few eguile
> > reports.  We've had a suggestion to use laml
> > (http://www.cs.aau.dk/~normark/laml/) to allow us to more easily
> > generate reports.  We've had suggestions to replace scheme with python
> > for reports.
> > 
> > I don't really have a preference, but I would like to see an updated
> > report engine which is 1) common across all reports, 2) allows easy
> > inclusion of CSS, 3) allows easy inclusion of javascript for things like
> > hiding/expanding columns/sections of rows, 4) allows multi-column
> > reports (e.g. balance sheet both today and beginning of every year for
> > the past 3 years).
> 
> All worthy goals indeed. The replacement of Scheme with Python is a GSoC
> proposal, and that's in the adjudication phase with results to be
> announced the 25th. Even better would be a report generation tool with GUI
> query and formatting. None of it seems likely to happen for 2.6, though,
> simply because there isn't anyone at present to do it. Until someone turns
> up, getting specific validation bugs in the system at least cues someone
> to fix what we've got in easy, short tasks.

I agree with John here. Switching to a new reporting engine is a worthwhile 
goal, but currently no new working implementation is in sight. (Even the laml 
proposal stayed just this - a proposal.) So we will have to live with the 
current scheme system at least also in version 2.6.x and maybe even for longer 
than that. Hence, even though we don't like this part of the code, we will 
have to accept its existence for quite some time, which also means if anyone 
has some minor bugfixes or improvements like those discussed here, it should 
go in.

Best Regards,

Christian