[reportlab-users] IRC channel

[Robin Becker]

Suno Ano wrote:

> I just checked; there does not seem an IRC channel with regards to

> reportlab toolkit. Am I right? Imho there should be one.



I used to use IRC back in the 90's. It seems a bit out of date these days. I 
think we were asked recently about twitter but I don't think there was a lot of 
enthusiasm for these new communications media from Andy who is probably the only 
person who counts.

As for your earlier query re rml I don't actually know enough about z3c.rml to 
know if it satisfies your data source requirements or the split between data & 
layout. In our implementation we have  dynamic features I think based on this

<!ELEMENT acquire (xmlData?)>
<!ELEMENT xmlData EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST xmlData
	name CDATA #REQUIRED
	fileName CDATA #IMPLIED
	url CDATA #IMPLIED
 >

eg

	<acquire>
		<xmlData name="data" fileName="test_020_sampledata.xml"/>
	</acquire>
other tags let you loop over the data

<loop_t var="line" in="data.invoice.lines">
<tr>
	<td>
	<expr>line</expr>
	</td>
					<td>
						<expr>line.unitPrice</expr>
					</td>
					<td>
						<expr>line.qty</expr>
					</td>
					<td>etc</td>
				</tr>
			</loop_t>

etc etc
-- 
Robin Becker