Reports 9i Output in XML

Hello,
A client wants a report back in XML format. I know I can do this pretty easily by changing the DESFORMAT from PDF to XML.
However, I don't want to show all the report layout tags in the output to the client. What's the easiest way to transform the XML document and remove the layout tags and just leave the actual data?
Any pointers or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance
Nilan

Hi Nilan,
The "non-data" tags that you see in your XML output are not report layout tags, but the data model "group name" tags.
Go to the Report Data Model, and in the group(s) Property Inspector, remove the entry against "XML Tag" and "Outer XML tag". Leave them blank. This should give you just the data dump (column names and their values).
However, my advice would be to first try and convert the entry against "XML tags" to some more useful names, otherwise it will be just a (not-so-useful) data dump, where you won't even see where one row of data ends and the next begins.
Navneet.

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