Xsl / Xslt

[Cobbydaler]

I'm using an app called Tellico to catalogue my music collection.

It's very good at cataloguing, picks up stuff from Amazon & CDDB automatically, parses ID3 tags etc. What it's not so great at is generating reports...

It has an XSL report template which outputs a grouped report (artist, album titles), but it's a single column in the centre of the page. It has another XSL template which outputs album titles alone in 3 columns across the page.

I want the 3 column format for the grouped report. Don't really want to learn XSL / XSLT & XPath to solve this & it's not obvious to me from the two templates.

Anybody out there already familiar with the syntax etc & got any ideas?

[greencreeper]

On their website there's mention of a mailing list, plus there's some templates here:

http://kde-files.org/index.php?xcontentmode=676

I take it outputs in XML and you format that with the XSL? May be there's an application that gives you some sort of interface, so you don't have to know what it's doing with XSL, if you see what I mean.

Just chucking out ideas

[Mr_love_monkey]

I took a crash course in xslt/xsl a year or so ago (someone asked if I could do something and in contractor brashness said 'of course') - if you want to bung me the files, I can take a look - can't promise I'll get anywhere with it though

pm me if you want an email address to send them to

[Cobbydaler]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

On their website there's mention of a mailing list, plus there's some templates here:

http://kde-files.org/index.php?xcontentmode=676

I take it outputs in XML and you format that with the XSL? May be there's an application that gives you some sort of interface, so you don't have to know what it's doing with XSL, if you see what I mean.

Just chucking out ideas

Yeah, it stores the data as XML & processes input & output with XSL.

Thanks, I'd already joined the mailing list (not posted yet as it seems more like a developers list from the archives).

Found the kde templates too, but they're not really what I want. OK for viewing on screen, but not not for a minimalist, space efficient, printed report...

Will Google for an XSL/XML bridging app...

Plus I donated & e-mailed the developer, as he suggested it for report help in the FAQ