Reports 9i XML output structure

When you set the output format of a report to XML, what is the structure of the resulting XML file? I saw a partial example in Oracle9iAS Reports Services and XML on page 14-5. However, the comment at the top of the example said that it was generated by Reports 6. Does Reports 9i produce the same XML output as version 6 did?

Corey,
Does Reports 9i produce the same XML output as version 6 did? You are right except there has been some bug fixes and few enhamcnements. The structure is same for a specific reports ( specifically the specific datamodel) both in 6i / 9i.
You can use any free DTD generator to generate DTD / schema for the reports XML output.
Thanks
The Oracle Reports team

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>
so http://machine:port/ is the port where
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>
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Yes
>
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would have to be deployed in OracleAS
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>
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