Why create your own XML format?
Although the Crystal ML Schema provides a solid default format for exporting to XML, you might want to create your own XML format for various reasons:
- You need to incorporate data from a Crystal report into an existing XML document that has its own schema/DTD and tags. In this case, you would customize the Crystal report's XML data with tags that are consistent with your existing XML document.
- You have an application that needs to read XML data from Crystal Reports, but the application can identify only a specific set of tags. In this case, you would customize the Crystal report's XML tags to match the tags that the application can identify.
- You already use an industry standard XML schema/DTD that is required by your company. In this case, you would customize your Crystal Reports XML data so that it conforms to the standard you are required to use.