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>The data can be easily converted to XML but the missing piece is how to get the report definitions into XSL.
If you're implying that you can just do CursorToXML() to get data into XML I'd have to advise against that. First of all, alot of my report logic is to put every thing that will show on the report into a cursor. Thats a highly denormalized cursor, and for most reports, typically has header, detail, and subdetail information in one two dimensional object. Try to convert that into XML and write an XSLT for it and you'll be in head ache city, and anyone you try and peddle your format to will just laugh at you.
Instead, you'll probably want to create real irregularly shaped XML formats based on your data, which, for 150 reports woudl be alot of work. At that point, using an FRX to generate the XSLT for that document would be next to impossible. So, all around, its not a simple task to achieve the benifits of XML/XSLT without recoding.
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