What is best way to build a report from xml file - not export

rbuser

What is the proper way to read and build a report from an XML based data
file using RB?

Do you use the text pipeline or the JIT pipeline? What are others doing?

We would like to build an enduser reporting solution that incorporates the
xml output from our Quickbooks sdk programming.

Thanks ahead of time.

Bill Brittain

nicocizik

Hi Bill,

A JITPipeline allows you to connect to virtually any datasource however all
traversal and data retrieval logic must be implemented by you. Take a look
at demos 139 and 140 in the \RBuilder\Demos\1. Reports\... directory for
examples of implementing the correct events of a JITPipeline.

The TextPipeline is mainly used for delimited text files as datasets. I do
not believe you would be able to use this pipeline for an XML dataset.

As a side note, I believe the TClientDataset has the ability to use an XML
document as a datasource. This is something you may want to research.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com