The XML report rendering extension extends the report emitter interfaces and XML writer in org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter. The extension example provides access to the report container, pages, tables, rows, cells text, labels, data, images, hyperlinks, and other contents at different phases of the report generation process.

The example writes the contents of the report to an XML output file. The example creates the XML file in the same folder as the exported report. The output file name is the name of the report with a .xml extension. The example provides only limited error checking.

The following section provides a general description of the code-based extensions a developer must make to develop an XML report rendering extension after defining the plug-in framework in the Eclipse PDE.