Monthly Archives: December 2004

Inside the last post, I introduced how RDL deal with procedural flow and macro variables, the following is another sample that illuminates how RDL handle the report layout.

 <?xml version=”1.0″?>
 <report name=”TestReportItemlayout” startaction=”format_report” librarydir=”E:\reporttools\src\Aspose\ReportTools\ReportTools.RDLElement\bin\Debug”>
   <reportaction name=”format_report”>
      <log message=”format report!” level=”Debug” />
      <reportparameter name=”body.top” value=”5″ />
      <reportparameter name=”body.left” value=”5″ />
      <reportparameter name=”row.height” value=”10″ />
      <reportparameter name=”column.width” value=”50″ />
      <reportparameter name=”header.height” value=”25″ />
      <reportparameter name=”footer.height” value=”30″ />
      <reportparameter name=”body.column.count” value=”0″ />


      <reportitem left=”${body.left}” top=”${body.top}” label=”mainpage”>
         <reportitem height=”${header.height}” label=”header”>
            <reportitem left=”${int::parse(column.width) * rdl::get-zindex()}” 

The following is RDL script used by one of unit test cases.

 <?xml version=”1.0″?>
 <report name=”Simple” startaction=”prepare_query”  librarydir=”E:\reporttools\src\Aspose\ReportTools\ReportTools.RDLElement\bin\Debug”>
   <variable name=”var_action_1″ value=”gather_data” />
   <variable name=”var_action_2″ value=”format_report” />
   <reportaction name=”prepare_query” nextaction=”check_sql” description=”generate the Sql script for reports”>
      <log message=”generate the SQL for report query!” level=”Debug” />
 <!– Putting the RDL elements that are used for specifying or assembling the SQL script here –>
      <variable name=”action_result” value=”good” />
      <if condition=”${action_result==’bad’}”>
         <variable name=”var_action_1″ value=”done” />
      </if>
   </reportaction>
   <reportaction name=”check_sql” nextaction=”${var_action_1}”>
      <log message=”the SQL is