CSV Emitter and Dynamic Text Items

Hi, 
 
I'm trying to extend the <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.actuate.com/products/resources/?articleid=11719'>CSV Emitter</a> from Integrating and Extending BIRT to handle multiple tables, quoted strings, and dynamic text items. It's the dynamic text items that I don't know how to solve. 
 
Dynamic text items show up as ForeignContent, but it seems like the value of the content has not yet been resolved by the time the emitter sees it. By this I mean that I can call content.getGenerateBy().getContent(), which is an Expression, which presumably I can evaluate using a context, although I don't know where to get the evaluation context from. Is this the right way to do it? 
 
I would appreciate any help. 
Julian

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jsinai

For anyone who's interested, I solved this by starting with the source code for the html emitter and changing the code to emit CSV instead. Now it handles all of our report content, which is quite complex. I'm willing to contribute this back if it's useful.

Julian