Is there an Oracle-recommended tool to customize eBS standard reports?

Hi,
a few days ago a collegue of mine dropped in and asked for a tool to customize eBusinessSuite (R12) standard reports. He came along with XXBA_PO_STANDARD_XSLFO.xsl (which is a mix of XSL and FO) and asked me if I could modify the position of some tables and if I knew a WYSIWYG editor that he could do the same without learning XSL and all the stuff.
First thing was not too complicated but the second: I spent some hours to find a tool on the internet, but I didnot find a way to do that on an existing report using the big ones (XMLSpy, Stylus Studio), and I neither found another tool to archive this.
Any hints or recommendations are appreciated.
Thanks
Carsten

sorry, wrong forum!

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