Thanks for the info Erik.... but it dos not help me as I have been working with this technology since a while now. I think you should read my mail again... which is attached. I simply wanted to convey the message to the user that complex reports can be created with XSL.

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The technologies which allows to control the display of XML data are XSL (eXtended Stylesheet Language) and CSS (Cascading style sheets).

XSL is very powerful and you should not have a problem creating your complex VFP report there.
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BTW, Can you point me where I mentioned "XSL can render a VFP report better than HTML"


>I didn't get the impression you were comparing XSL to VFP. But you did state that XSL might be able to render a VFP report better than HTML, and this is not true. XSL is only the transformation code that servers to translate XML into HTML. The end result is still HTML, and any graphic layout you can acheive with XML/XSL you can acheive wth plain jane HTML.
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>The key technology to mark up a VFP report in HTML would be CSS and absolute positioning. But like I mentioned before, you would still have to write translation code that would look at a report layout and translate VFP's positioning into HTML positioning. This would not be a menial task, which is why, despite a high demand, I think no such tool has been written (that I know of).
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>A key thing to remember is that XML is the transport, XSL is the translator, and HTML is the final result.
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>>You got me wrong here. I never mentioned XSL is more powerful than VFP. The developer wanted to know if a complex report (like done in VFP) can be done using XML data. XSL simply happens to be the key technology for this job.
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>>>>XSL is very powerful and you should not have a problem creating your complex VFP report there.
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>>>I disagree. There is nothing magically graphical about XSL that gives it insight into the object location language of the VFP report format. The answer is the same as the answer to the frx->html question: it is possible, but not without a LOT of work.