Storing Crystal Reports in XML files?

Question

I was talking to somebody a recently who mentioned it was possible to store reports created using Crystal Reports as XML files.

Upon Googling this, I can't find anything suggesting that this is the case (using data stored in XML in a report, yes, but actually storing the report, the part stored by default as a .rpt file, no.

Am I correct in assuming that there was in fact some sort of misunderstanding between us and it in fact not possible to do this?

Answer 1

It is not possible to store the report template in XMLformat. XML is supported as export format of the "rendered" report only.
For what purpose do you need the report template in XML format. There is a Java reporting solution called Crystal-Clear which can read the Crytsal Reports report template and save it as XML report template. The other way round this does not work. After you created a XML file you cannot open the report with Crystal Reports again. But you can work with the report using Crystal-Clear which is coming with a GUI-designer too.

Answer 2

Use the Crystal Reports SDK to convert the RPT file format to XML.