Apologies for a vague specification. Desired features:

• Several (10+) different types of reports
• Common graphic design
• Reports are static -- not interactive CGI apps.
• Reports contain both text and tables and figures. Some text is stock, others are templated.
• Reports are rendered for different media: html for intranet (one page with internal links), for paper (pdf with sensible page breaks), et.

Here's an example of a templated section, written in psuedo TT2 code ...

## PSUEDO CODE
"Parsing [% num_major_files %] files generated a total 
of [% num_major_incidents %] incidents, falling into 
[% num_classes %] classes.  Table [% an autogenerated 
table number would go here %] presents the top 10 
incident categories.  Note that [% top_incident_class %] 
comprises [% top_fract %] of the cases ....
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A good DTD would get me much of the way there. I'm seeking an decent XML spec for sections, tables, figures, captions, etc. rkg

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