XML Report Structure

Question

Hi,
My requirement is to design a payslip for an employee, In my output i need to display the elements(ie earnings and deductions) in two different columns like below
Earnings Rs. Deductions Rs
Basic 5000 PF 300
HRA 3500
How to display the elements in two different columns.(Here the elements Basic,HRA and PF are getting from the same database column).

Answer 1

Hi,
Hope your data is comma separated.
You have two options:
1. Do a substring to your data base column and separate the individual columns based on comma separation in your sql query, so that u can directly use it in your RTF as individual tags.
2. You can substring the tag which is comma separated and print the data as follows:
Assuming an XML structure as
<ROOT>
<TEXT>BASIC,HRA,PF</TEXT>
<VALUE>5000,3500,300</VALUE>
</ROOT>
Now you can have the following tags:
*1st row:*
<?xdofx:substr(/ROOT/TEXT,1,Instr(/ROOT/TEXT,',',1)-1)?> <?xdofx:substr(/ROOT/VALUE,1,Instr(/ROOT/VALUE,',',1)-1)?>; <?xdofx:substr(/ROOT/TEXT,Instr(/ROOT/TEXT,',',1,2)+1)?>: <?xdofx:substr(/ROOT/ VALUE,Instr(/ROOT/VALUE,',',1,2)+1)?>
*2nd row:*
<?xdofx:substr(/ROOT/TEXT,Instr(/ROOT/TEXT,',',1,1)+1,Instr(/ROOT/TEXT,',',1,2)-(Instr(/ROOT/TEXT,',',1,1)+1))?>: <?xdofx:substr(/ROOT/VALUE,Instr(/ROOT/VALUE,',',1,1)+1,Instr(/ROOT/VALUE,',',1,2)-(Instr(/ROOT/VALUE,',',1,1)+1))?>
and the output for this would be like
BASIC 5000; PF: 300
HRA: 3500
Hope this is what you want.
Thanks,
Kavipriya.