Help on formatting ?

[Guest]

Dear all,

I have an ASP.NET 1.1 application which show data collected from an sql
database inside a datagrid bind to a dataset which contains all data retrive.

I need to display ki^nd of printable version of the grid on a page in which
I need to format the data from that dataset on the page.

I guess that I need to generate an XML from the dataset and then apply an
XLST to render it .

I have never done this doesa the XML generated from the data set should be
store as a file on disk or in memory ?

How to use this XLST transformation to format that XML for nice formatting
on web page ?

thnaks for your help
regard
serge

 

[David Hernandez Diez]

Dear all,

I have an ASP.NET 1.1 application which show data collected from an sql
database inside a datagrid bind to a dataset which contains all data retrive.

I need to display ki^nd of printable version of the grid on a page in which
I need to format the data from that dataset on the page.

I guess that I need to generate an XML from the dataset and then apply an
XLST to render it .

I have never done this doesa the XML generated from the data set should be
store as a file on disk or in memory ?

How to use this XLST transformation to format that XML for nice formatting
on web page ?

thnaks for your help
regard
serge

You don't need to store the xml in a file, you can work directly in
memory, it's faster, less complicated and less error prone.

Here you can find an article to do something similar ...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...e/html/cpconApplyingXSLTransformToDataSet.asp

 

[Guest]

Thnaks david, I will try that

Do you think that it is a correct way to provide easy printing of formatting
data ?
I was planning also to use crytal reporting, but souinds more complicated

What is you opinion on handling reporting ?

regards
serge