Can anyone receommend a good book on using the Report Generator module in MatLab? I've looked at some of the examples and information, but would like a more detailed treatment.

Thanks,
Jeff

I am also looking for a sample book of this kind... have you found one yet?

[url=http://sampleresumebook.com/]Christopher[/url]

Hello,

There are two pieces to the report generation:

1. Accessing the data in your MATLAB code or Simulink models and transform it into DocBook XML. 

http://docbook.org/

This is automatically taken care by the components that ship with the product.

To generate a DocBook XML from a demo that ships, try this:

>> report('magic-square', '-fdb','-noview', '-quiet')

Access the magic-square.xml file. You will also observe that there will be a magic-square_xml_files folder containing xfrag documents(they are all XML and can be be opened in Notepad)

If you want to understand what DocBook XML is all about, see this link:

http://books.google.com/books?id=wQ3a1kBygkcC&dq=docbook&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=qSg_TOixJcKAlAeQwKm9CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

2. The next step rendering the XML into one of the file formats through a stylesheet. There are a variety of implementations for this processing which you may have to research on your own. I always recommend starting with the stylesheets available with the product and tweak them.

I also refer to the DocBook XSL book by Bob Stayton:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/

Thanks,

Saurabh

Thanks, Saurabh Mahapatra. With all of the effort Mathworks has put into its online help files, I find it frustrating that they haven't done the same for Report Generator - which happens to be one of the main reasons I purchased MatLab. MatLab expains things as simple as adding two numbers but wont go into any detail about getting data into te report or formatting. I does give examples of canned data but nothing better. I've started on a report simply by trial and error (and some of the canned stuff) but I really need something more comprehensive. For instance, when I generate my report in pdf format it gives me all sorts of preiliminary pages including blank ones that I can't figure out how to get rid of. I'm sure it isn't terribly difficult, but it is frustrating. I really wish MW would put some effort into developing a better help section on the report generator.

Thanks again Saurabh. I will check out the web sites you listed.

Jeff