Re: [Rlib-users] rlib looks nice

[Denis K. <ko...@re...>]

Thank you, somehow xml.pl is not in sourceforge.net distribution.
The tool looks nice and small, yet powerful.

Basic functionality looks ok, but I got a couple of questions:

I couldn't break on v.* variable. If I break on v.day it prints first 
record for the next day first and only then handles <breakfooter> 
section. Is it how it suppose to run? I've had to break on expression to 
make it work properly
...
2004-09-10 23h	4708 887
2004-09-11 00h	3544 230
2004-09-11	38170 6494
2004-09-11 01h	6312 812
...

Example is attached.


Also, I couldn't declare a var that refers to other DATE v.* vars. 
Reference to STR v.* vars seems working.

<Variables>
<Variable name="tm" value="stodtsql(time)" type="expression"/>
<Variable name="week" value="format(v.tm, '!@%V')" type="expression"/>
<Variable name="day" value="format(v.tm, '!@%Y-%m-%d')" type="expression"/>

Each line it was complaining:
Format type does not match variable type in 'format' functionFormat type 
does not match variable type in 'format' functionrlib_process_variables 
EXPECTED TYPE NUMBER OR STRING FOR RLIB_REPORT_VARIABLE_EXPRESSION

I've had to do
<Variables>
<Variable name="week" value="format(stodtsql(time), '!@%V')" 
type="expression"/>
<Variable name="day" value="format(stodtsql(time), '!@%Y-%m-%d')" 
type="expression"/>

No big deal, but unpleasant


My intentions with RLIB are quite obvious, reports, reports, ... some 
other reports.


Bob Doan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 19:55 -0400, Denis Kokarev wrote:
> 
>>Does RLIB support input data in XML format rather than reading directly 
>>from DB? 
> 
> 
> Yes
> 
> 
>>Do you have a sample how can I do in in Perl or C? 
> 
> 
> rlib/src/examples/perl/xml.pm
> 
> 
>>This feature 
>>would be helpful for us.
> 
> 
> Out of curiosity what might AT&T be doing with RLIB?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Bob
>