Can we use emPy, ReST, and/or YAML for report generation

[Brad Clements]

I use FOP from Apache.org. Python pulls data from SAPDB and I write it out
as XML. FOP makes it into a PDF

Nice thing is, the same XML data creates my web pages using client-side XSLT
or server-side xlst (with zope). I also use the same xml to make customer
invoices (through FOP) .

We originally used ReportLab to make PDF reports, but every new report
required a lot of tedious programming in Python. ReportLab produces good
output, but FOP gave us more flexability.

I bet RXML would be good, but that didn't exist when we moved to FOP.


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"Samir Patel" <mepython at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Currently main choice to create a report in python is reportlab. It
> allows a fine control over creation of report at cost of bigger
> learning curve. Instead of reportlab, does it make sense to generate
> small reports using emPy or ReST with or without use of YAML? Are
> there any other choice to create small reports easily in python?
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