March 2006
Beginner to intermediate
480 pages
11h 17m
English
• 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.
At first glance, the name Report Definition Language (RDL) might appear to be a misnomer. As you’ve already seen, it is nothing more than an XML document, just like any other XML document. Why would they call this ...