Generic calc engine?
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I have been contemplating writing a generic calculation engine for Tax Computations, and was wondering if it would be possible to write such a thing that required each years coputational calculations to be defined in XML and data then to also be held in XML. The generic calculation component then uses the instructions in XML to explain how to do the calculation so that the same component can be used for any years tax computation, and output numerous results to a separate XML file. I would appreciate any advice any of you "experts" can give me on such a project. Would it be possible??
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I have been contemplating writing a generic calculation engine for Tax Computations, and was wondering if it would be possible to write such a thing that required each years coputational calculations to be defined in XML and data then to also be held in XML. The generic calculation component then uses the instructions in XML to explain how to do the calculation so that the same component can be used for any years tax computation, and output numerous results to a separate XML file. I would appreciate any advice any of you "experts" can give me on such a project. Would it be possible??
>> Would it be possible?? Sure. Your basically talking about a XML Processor much the same as XSLT or any other. You define a language and then develop the processor right? Not that it is a simple task to complete but the concept is simple.
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-pete