Chapter 7. Report Definition Language

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.