RDL - Visual Studio Report Designer omitting certain tags

  • From my reading of the Report Definition Language Specification, tag nesting down to the Body element should look like the following

    <Report>

    <ReportSections>

    <ReportSection>

    <Body>

    But in the RDL produced by the Report Wizard in Visual Studio nests the Body element directly under the Report element like the following

    <Report>

    <Body>

    What is the rule for when tags can be omitted?

    Is this an RDL thing or an XML thing?

    I know this has been ask before, but is there a gentle introduction to RDL? The few links I have found were all broken.

  • cnirosky (10/8/2012)


    From my reading of the Report Definition Language Specification, tag nesting down to the Body element should look like the following

    <Report>

    <ReportSections>

    <ReportSection>

    <Body>

    In my opinion, The report sections exists only in RDL created by SSRS 2008 R2

    But in the RDL produced by the Report Wizard in Visual Studio nests the Body element directly under the Report element like the following

    <Report>

    <Body>

    WHILE

    the other example is of an RDL created in SSRS 2008 / 2005

    As the new versions of SSRS come up with new features, the XML Specification also keeps on changing.

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