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Developing BIRT reports is almost like building HTML pages... but in a more structured way. BIRT reports are XML documents supporting layouts, items like tables, charts, etc, styles, and so on. You do not have to learn XML BIRT document format as the BIRT Eclipse tool allows to create them in a friendly and visual way and use some basic Javascript and HTML code embedded in themreports. The BIRT engine (server) transforms BIRT XML documents (reports) into HTML pages and other popular formats (MS Offics, PDF, etc).
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