Is there tool convert DRL file to XLS file

Question

At my workplace we are moving from .drl files to .xls files so that the business analysts can better understand the rules and can communicate with the business faster. Our rule base is pretty complicated and I was wondering if there was a tool which could take drl files as input and provide xls as output.

Any help in this regard will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Unfortunately there is no such tool, as DRL is a free-format style of rule whereas spreadsheets and web decision tables are just templates for very rigidly-structured rules.

In general, if your rule base is complex, then spreadsheets are unlikely to support it very well. They work best for large numbers of simple (almost identical) rules.

If your rules are simple and almost identical, then potentially you could knock up a script to parse the DRL and generate spreadsheets. But that's only worth doing if you have large numbers of them.