Spectacular Reports in Flex

Hello, and thank you, collectively, for all the online and
community support. Flex is simply awesome! 2 months ago I was doing
my first installation and I now have a pretty exciting demo...
except for one thing.
Reports!
Reading post, after post, after post... this seems to be a
dark spot on an otherwise brilliant star. I've gotta believe quite
a few developers are doing what I am, so let's get to it...
I bring a dataset into my Flex (not AIR) app and allow the
user to manipulate it, filtering down to exactly what they want to
see... ADGs and charts, detail where appropriate. The climax of
this story is the report... but, there is no report! I really need
to take my client-side XML and transform it to something pretty and
printable.
I also need to do this client side, so solutions that require
an app server are off the table (I've done so much without an app
server, just a webserver and CGI, that I'd hate to add one just for
reports.)
ClearBI looks pretty cool, but the user community is hard to
find (or non-existent), and it's not real clear how to make it work
in our architecture.
I could use xsl:fo, if I could get my XML datasets from the
Flash sandbox to the browser (with a ProcessingInstruction). Seems
that may not be possible.
So my options seem to be to turn to an external reporting
solution. With as awesome as Flex has been so far, it seem this
should not be necessary.
I'm hoping to find something that produces paginated reports,
with embedded charts, that can export to PDF and Excel, all from
the client.
Has anyone found or created something like this?
TIA!

trivinci,
I have read that the latest version of Crystal Reports
supports integration with Flex (see
http://www.crystalreports.co.uk/assets/Download%20Centre/SAP%20Xcelsius.pdf
or
http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/sme/reporting/crystalreports/featuresfunct ions/index.epx
for example) which might help you,
Richard

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