XML Publisher

Introduction

About XML publisher

Oracle XML Publisher is a template-based publishing solution delivered with oracle E-business suite. It provides new approach to report design and publishing by integrating familiar desktop word processing tools with existing E-business suite data reporting. XML Publisher leverages standard, well-known technologies and tools, so we can rapidly develop and maintain custom report formats.

The flexibility of XML publisher is a result of the separation of the separation of the presentation of the report from its data structure.

The collection of the data is still handled by the E-business suite, but now we can design and control how the report outputs will be presented in the separate template files. At runtime, XML Publisher mergers our designed template files with report data to create a variety of outputs to meet a variety of business needs, including

• Customer-ready PDF documents, such as financial statements, marketing materials, contracts, Invoices and purchase orders utilizing colors, images, font, styles, headers and footers, and many other formatting and design options.
• HTML output for optimum online viewing.
• Excel output to create a spread sheet of our report data.
• Flat text files to exchange with business partners for EDI and EFT transmission.

Rich set of report features

·         High fidelity formatting

·         Charting

·         Multiple objects in one report

·         Multiple tabular reports and a full range of charting options

·         High degree of report interactivity (filter, sort, hide column)

·         Conditional formatting

·         Ease report template creation

·         A broad range of formulas and functions out of box

The following graphic displays a few sample documents generated by XML publisher: