[reportlab-users] Dynamic Tables

[Tim Roberts]

Brandon Rich wrote:

> I am hoping to create an invoice template that can be used over and over

> repeatable.  I was looking around online, and found that the flowable

> element paragraph can accept certain XML tags.


Yes, but it only accepts a small set of pseudo-HTML tags: basically <b>, 
<i>, <u>, <super>, <sub>, <font>, and a special <onDraw>.  It is NOT a 
general-purpose HTML renderer by any means.

The great benefit of open source software is that you can go into the 
source code and look this up.


> I have yet to see an

> example of the <table> tag being one of them.  Is there an example of

> this anywhere that you know of?   

>   


No, that's not the way it's done.  Platypus supports a separate Table 
flowable -- that's how it's done.  Your paragraphs get added to the 
story as Paragraph flowables, and your tables get added as Table flowables.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.