Formating XML field in report

Hi:
The database we are reporting from (DB2 running on AS/400) has a field with
the data type of CLOB. We would like to perform an XSLT on this field within
the same report that contains more "normal" data (strings, numeric, etc.)
types.
This database contains error and status messages that are generated as
various processes are run. We would like to be able to present the CLOB data
on the report based on the type of process that produced the data. In other
words, if process A produced the entery in to the database, on the report for
process A, format the CLOB data this way, if process B, then the CLOB data is
represented in another way. The data in the CLOB is XML and each process has
its own schema.
Right now I am stumped. Is this possible? Can you point me in the right
direction?
Thanks.You're probably going to need to write a custom function (or perhaps a
custom assembly if you're going to need to read XSLTs from disk) to do this.
You could pass the data along with the process to your custom function which
would apply the transform and return the string to display in the textbox.
E.g. =Code.CLOBClass.Convert(Fields!CLOBData.Value,Fields!Process.Value)
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> Hi:
> The database we are reporting from (DB2 running on AS/400) has a field
with
> the data type of CLOB. We would like to perform an XSLT on this field
within
> the same report that contains more "normal" data (strings, numeric, etc.)
> types.
> This database contains error and status messages that are generated as
> various processes are run. We would like to be able to present the CLOB
data
> on the report based on the type of process that produced the data. In
other
> words, if process A produced the entery in to the database, on the report
for
> process A, format the CLOB data this way, if process B, then the CLOB data
is
> represented in another way. The data in the CLOB is XML and each process
has
> its own schema.
> Right now I am stumped. Is this possible? Can you point me in the right
> direction?
> Thanks.