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## Discoverer3i Viewer: Overview

XML Components Used: Oracle XML Parser for Java, Version 2

#### What is Discoverer?

Discoverer Business Intelligence solutions transform an organization's data into information. Oracle Discoverer for the Web allows you to access this information using a Web browser interface.

#### What is Discoverer 3i Viewer?

Oracle Discoverer 3i Viewer makes the information available anywhere on the Internet or Intranet, and allows the information to be transparently embedded in Web pages or accessed from corporate Portals. Oracle Discoverer 3i Viewer can be customized, to fit any Web site using standard Web Technologies such as XML and XSL.

Discoverer allows you to make queries, while Reports lets you publish reports in different formats, including HTML, Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF), and XML.

#### Customizing Oracle DiscovererTM 3i Viewer

This chapter provides customization examples and describes strategies for using Discoverer 3i Viewer.

- XML and XSL: Discoverer3i Viewer uses industry standard XML to represent data and application states, and the XSL style sheet language to format the User Interface. Standard XSL tools can be used to customize the User Interface or to produce a complete embedded Business Intelligence application.

- HTML: You can specify HTML formatting attributes in a single customization file. Fonts, colors, and graphics are easily changed especially if you are familiar with HTML formatting.

Discoverer3i Viewer can be driven and accessed by middle-tier B2B applications.

#### More Information on Discoverer 3i Viewer

For more information on Discoverer3i Viewer see:

http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/discoverer/doc_index.htm

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