Not a direct answer to your question, but as far as the "prior art" of building slideshows, you may want to check out what Doug Tidwell, author of O'Reilly's XSLT, did in Building tutorials with the Toot-O-Matic.

HTML Slidy is Dave Raggett's HTML Tidy cousin, billed as "a Web based alternative to PowerPoint".

"Use Visual Basic to Build an Access Data Presentation in PowerPoint" is a very old article that may nevertheless give you some ideas about how other people created data-driven presentations.

HTH,

planetscape

In reply to Re: Best Data Structure for passing in multiple arguments to a sub-routine by planetscape
in thread Best Data Structure for passing in multiple arguments to a sub-routine by ~~David~~

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