Document Templating / Report Generation solution?

[Christopher Browne]

On 2009-02-23, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo <arifsaha-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Christopher Browne wrote:
>> none of that is particularly plausible to do using LaTeX.
>>
>> It's a macro language intended to transform bits of text into
>> the sets of glyphs, words, and paragraphs that get "glued
>> together" to comprise a document.
>
> Ok, so the proper mechanism when the text content is variable,
> is to have other script generate a Latex document, right?

Yes, that would be a fine idea.

>> Getting all of those forms *is* a pretty high "bar" to set.
>
> Thanks for the comment. While I am not sure I agree about it is
> being "high" - obviously for word processor (formated document
> editor) this is a normal requirement - but basically you said
> the the requirement that it should go to various format put the
> solution in somewhat narrow choices.

The more requirements that you add to your specification, the greater
the risk that you'll find them either mutually contradictory, or that
you rule out all pre-existing possible solutions.

>> Conceivably, generating ODF (which, as you suggest, could be
>> quite a task) could replace generating DocBook.
>
> My thought as well. Of course with ODF we can have much easier
> tools such as UNO interface of OpenOffice.org, so I don't even
> have to know the internal structure of ODF XML.

Not being familiar with UNO, I don't know whether or not that
represents an "easy" tool to use.  If it is, then you have your
solution...
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