Generating report from an xml file

I want to generate a report from an xml, preferably html. The html here should be dynamic to allow limiting the view based on some user entered values, preferably selecting from a drop down of categories, which inturn is populated from the xml. I also want to have links in the report to more info which is stored in another xml file.

I started off with javascript with xslt for display and I'm still long way in acheiving my des开发者_Python百科ires. Are there any other ways to do it?? Any automated Open sources tools, for this, rather than reinventing.

I'm a rank beginner with XLST, but I think it's the way to go. I would dynamically create an XML document containing which contains the bas document for the report, the user-entered information and the links to the other report, and from there, it should be just a matter of generating HTML using XLST. Not trivial, but once you have everything in one XML document, the HTML report becomes a simple mapping of the XML inputs.