Comments on: Eclipse BIRT and AccuRev for Developer Reporting cont'd

By: ben ali amira

ben ali amira — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:42:00 +0000

Could you please give more explanation about your idea using birt.

By: jsherwood

jsherwood — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:30:27 +0000

Understood, but your probably better off querying xsl forums to find an answer.

Like you described I’m doing the work externally, running a script and pre-processing the xml before feeding it to the BIRT engine.

By: ben ali amira

ben ali amira — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:15:05 +0000

Thanks a lot.
It’s not a matter birt or Jasper(ireport).
My Idea is to parse an xsl-fo file and to generate an equivalent jrxml file. My problem is where to find all tags of each one and the Matching between them. It ‘s hard to make from zero.

By: jsherwood

jsherwood — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:59:09 +0000

Good question, unfortunately I don’t have a good answer.

There doesn’t seem to be a way in BIRT to specify a translation directly.

That being said I’ve been experimenting with both the scripted data source as well as using an event handler on the data source. Using this allows me to run the accurev commands directly and then force the results.

The downside (so far) to using scripted is that it is harder to use dynamic columns and dynamic commands.

I’m making more progress with java based event handlers, but I have to learn a lot of the BIRT internal object structures to get there.

By: ben ali amira

ben ali amira — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:23:24 +0000

Hello,
How can I import xsl file in Birt as a Design.
I used Fop, but now I want to migrate to Birt without needing neither xsl nor fop.
Any idea please?
I’m so thankfull.