Hi, all!

I'm about to start a job where I am tasked with the following: Producing about 100 reports from a dataset which cvan be processed by Lasso, where one report will contain a specific subsett of the data.
The reports are to look nice, like something that came out of a Word processor, and they will contain the output of the Lasso-processing in tables, and as text flowing with other text.
The reports are otherwise identical in layout, so the thought of using a master template to feed Lasso is close.
I have experience building PDFs with Lasso, and builing XML (mostly with xmltree). Therfore I was thinking either PDF reports, or using XML and getting from that to, I guess, .docx format. Or making the template as a docx document, and maybe working directly with that, if possible.
The problem with PDF is that AFAIK, you cannot parse it by tags, so if you want to insert something that is in flow with other text, you'll have to parse and place the entirety of the text in Lasso. Is that correct? I've mostly manipulated smaller things like invoices, where you can place your text by position. That will not be possible here.
I have never worked with .docx before, on that level. Is it possible to parse it as XML in Lasso, and can I beforehand tag the places in the XML structure where I want the different output, in the .docx master I make, so that I can refer to those places I have tagged in the resulting XML in Lasso? and then save the result as a still Word-readable .docx file?

Any other suggestion as to how I could best attack this challenge? I'm on Lasso 8.6 on Mac OS X.


Regards,
Lars
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