[GNC-dev] merging failing tests

Thu Sep 6 02:45:51 EDT 2018

Op donderdag 6 september 2018 00:28:41 CEST schreef Christopher Lam:
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> I think that completing the internal framework to successfully implement
> html api code (as you have identified is incomplete) is not time well
> spent. None of the reports will generate html without headers, for
> instance.
Yet they should be able to for a properly validating multi-column report. This 
is IMO a valid bug in the current state [1]. So either header omission should 
be implemented or the concept of a multi column report needs to be reworked.

To zoom in a bit on this issue: there is more to do than just omitting the 
headers. The multi-column report only needs the contents of the <body> tag and 
optionally any header elements (css,  stylesheet, whatever) that were in the 
original header and needed for the original report to function properly. So it 
may be easier to write code in the multi-column report to extract this data 
rather than make all reports deal with optional headers but with separated 
style info.

Other than that I'm all for seriously reducing the complexity of the html and 
stylesheet generating code.

Geert

[1] Which I did report years ago: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?
id=706266