Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

In This Chapter

  • Language: A Way to Communicate

  • Use of XML

  • Declarative Programming

  • Report Elements

The preceding chapter provided an introduction to Report Designer and Report Builder. This chapter takes a look at the output from these tools.

SSRS is unique in that it uses XML to generate reports . This chapter provides an insight into why Microsoft uses XML as their report generation language, and then delves into the structure of the resulting document.

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