[XML DataSources] HTML-Simple

Reporting Design Cookbook Data Design
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This recipe shows how to read contents from HTML code using XML datasource.

Steps taken:

  1. Create an XML datasource (HTML-Simple.ds). Enter the following code into the “DataSource Wizard > Data” field:
Title of page This is my first homepage. This text is bold Set the Input Format to “XML”. Set Date, Time and Timestamp formats accordingly. 2. Create another XML datasource (HTML-Table.ds). Enter the following code into the “DataSource Wizard > Data” field:
Heading Another Heading
row 1, cell 1 row 1, cell 2
row 2, cell 1 row 2, cell 2
Set the Input Format to “XML”. Set Date, Time and Timestamp formats accordingly.

To download the necessary files for this recipe, refer to the attached ZIP file.
HTML-Simple.zip