You have report layouts in XML and you want to use Perl for that. Ok ... this is important info.

From what I know, there is no single templating system that will map XML layouts to SQL queries and produce HTML. However, you can glue together a few different components and come up with a generic solution. However, it won't be just a "few lines of code". My best guess would be that you would have to look at redesigning the system.

However, the benefit is that you're not limited to just what you could do in SQLPlus. For example, once you have your templates in HTML::Template, a few minor changes and you can use PDF::Template to output the reports in PDF. No code changes required. Outputting to Excel format is also similarly easy (though there is no XLS::Template ... yet).

Of course, and as always, YMMV.

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In reply to Re5: Sqlplus -> DBD::Oracle Question by dragonchild
in thread Sqlplus -> DBD::Oracle Question by set_uk

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