Controlling XML Output from a Crystal Report

Hi guys,
I need to provide an XML output from one of my reports. The customer has defined his schema and I have tried to implement it using the 'XML Expert" With reference to the two snippets below:
this is what I want:
<DEPADDR>ZBTJ</DEPADDR>
<ACFTYPE>EMB145</ACFTYPE>
and this is what I get:
<DEPADDR FieldName="{@DEPADDR}">ZBTJ</DEPADDR>
<ACFTYPE FieldName="{@ACFTYPE}">EMB145</ACFTYPE>
Does anyone know how to suppress "FieldName="{@DEPADDR}"" from the output? In the XML Expert Dialog both the name, which prints, and the type, which doesn't, are greyed out so you can't do anything with them. There is a "Suppress XML Tag" tick box but that seems to have no effect on what is included in the export.
Thanks in advance
Richard

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