Specifications

Exporting to XML
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Processing instructions
Processing instructions (PIs) enable you to provide information to the
application that uses the processed XML. Processing instructions are enclosed
in
<? and ?> delimiters and must have a name, called the target, followed by
optional data that is processed by the application that uses the XML. Each
application that uses the XML must process the targets that it recognizes and
ignore any other targets.
The XML declaration at the beginning of an XML document is an example of
a processing instruction. You cannot use the string
xml as the name of any other
processing instruction target.
Example
In this example, usething is the name of the target, and thing=this.thing
is the data to be processed by the receiving application:
<?usething thing=this.thing?>
Exporting to XML
You can export the data in a report to XML using the Save Rows As menu item
in the Report painter when the Preview view is open and is the last view
touched. When you export data, InfoMaker uses an export template to specify
the content of the generated XML.
Default export format
If you have not created or assigned an export template, InfoMaker uses a
default export format. This is the same format used when you create a new
default export template. See “Creating templates” on page 370.
OLE reports cannot be exported using a template. You must use the default
format.