Convert RDL to HTML

pysome has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear All,

I come across a messy problem to use Perl and SQL server report system. You know,The SQL server has a self-report system named "Report Server".

Which can produce some report plot file,such as "a.rdl","b.rdl" etc.

Now, I wanna convert those *.rdl report file to HTML file. Then i can get the html files to show them in different WEB Platform.

Do you have a good idea or know some CPAN's module to achieve the aim ?

Thanks

Pysome

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Re: Convert RDL to HTML by dHarry (Abbot) on Sep 17, 2008 at 07:47 UTC
Correct me if I'm wrong but you mean the Report Definition Language (RDL). I don't know of any dedicated Perl module for this but since RDL is an XML representation of the report definition I assume you can use an XML parser for this job. Look at the MSDN RDL entries for info on the XML side. Look at CPAN for an XML parser. You might want to select something that supports XSLT to do the transformation.	[reply]
Re: Convert RDL to HTML by Anonymous Monk on Sep 17, 2008 at 08:00 UTC
Do you have a good idea or know some CPAN's module to achieve the aim ? Its microsoft product, so microsoft must have something to convert to html, so just use that. or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report_Definition_Language is xml, so xml it up buddy :D or Here's another one, search for a product, you might find one like http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/rdlproject.aspx RdlViewer.dll Provides a .NET control for embedding in .NET applications. Displays RDL reports, and provides methods for printing and saving to HTML, PDF, and XML.	[reply]