I want to export formatted tables (for presentation, not data exchange) in a variety of formats, top of the list being Excel and Tex, but also HTML, pdf, image, ...

I can define my own Table class and write each individual export method in various formats using their idiosyncratic interfaces, but it would be nice if a standardized class (module?) existed so I could just conform to that and magically get multi-format exporting without the work. Ideally the class would be flexible enough to allow any custom formatting conceivable in HTML or Spreadsheet::WriteExcel based on instance-level configuration (S:WE is in general much broader than I need).

I'm aware of Data::Table for data but nothing so much for report-like tables. In case I'm being too vague by "table" I mean there's an underlying tabular data structure but with beautification - headers, text, custom formatting, etc etc.

In sum, I want all of LaTeX::Table, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel, PDF::Table, and whatever HTML/XML table writer of your choice but with a common interface. Is that too much (seriously :)?

In reply to Multi-Format Table Export - Seeking a Common Interface by blakew

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