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<node id="1012693" title="Re: Using '#' at the beginning of a format?" created="2013-01-10 11:18:21" updated="2013-01-10 11:18:21">
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Actually, what I normally do is to generate the report output as an XML file, then run it through XSLT ... or simply let the web browser do that work for me. &amp;nbsp; Simply adopt a consistent structure for the XML data that you intend to report. &amp;nbsp; (Going so far as to define a schema that can be validated is probably a good thing.) &amp;nbsp; Then, set up an XSLT stylesheet that can be used to turn all of them into good-looking output with CSS stylesheets and so forth. &amp;nbsp; It can do a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of things for you which you therefore don&amp;rsquo;t have to do in code, and it looks a heck of a lot more professional than &amp;ldquo;line-printer art.&amp;rdquo; &amp;nbsp; Using XML also makes the report output in-general more of a &lt;em&gt;resource,&lt;/em&gt; that can be used for other things.
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(If you want to see just what this technology is capable of, look at this [http://www.excelhero.com/periodic-table/|interactive table of the elements] which was created in this way ... virtually no programming required.)
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