Supported Output Format
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## Supported Output Format

Lire supports multiple report output formats. All reports are generated in a native XML format which can be transformed into different other output formats. The following formats are supported:

ASCII

  The default output format is ASCII. Simple text reports are best used for daily email reports.

HTML

  Lire can generate HTML reports that can be viewed in any web browser. Those reports can include charts for easy overview.

PDF

  To print the reports, Lire can generate Adobe PDF output. Like the HTML reports, those can include charts for easy overview.

RTF

  For Microsoft platforms, Lire can generate reports in RTF format.

  ### Warning

  With the widespread availability of PDF viewers, this format is less interesting than the PDF format, but it is supported anyhow.

  It may be dropped in future Lire releases.

Excel 95

  FIXME

XHTML

  Alternatively to the HTML output format, some may prefer reports in the new XML based XHTML. Those can be viewed in recent web browsers like Mozilla. Like most of the other reports, XHTML can include charts for easy overview.

DocBook XML

  Lire can generate reports in the standard XML DTD DocBook. This intermediary format can be interesting for those who might want to customize the layouts of the reports. For example, one could generate reports in DocBook XML and use the company's stylesheets to print reports with the company's logo and standard report appearance.

LogML

  LogML is a new XML based language to compress log files in smaller files. It enables data mining techniques on web log files, by building a graph representing the website. Currently, only the email and www superservices support LogML output.

  Tools to view the LogML output are not publicly available yet. Watch the WWWPal download webpage. One can get nice results however with OpenJGraph by using the runsample1 program. See also the Lire examples section on the LogReport website.

  ### Note

  Not all reports can be included in the LogML format. Presently, only some reports from the www and email superservices are supported. With the www superservice, the reports supported are `top-referer-page-connections`, `bytes-by-period`, `requests-by-period`, `requests-by-result`, `requests-by-method`, `requests-by-version` and `bytes-by-dir`. With the email superservice, the only report supported is `top-deliveries-btw-relays`

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