"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">BIRT Report Engine provides report rendering extensions that render a report in HTML, PDF, XLS, PostScript, and Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. In BIRT release 2.2.1, the BIRT report rendering extension API supports rendering a report in a customized format, such as XML.</span></p>
<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">This article describes a sample implementation of customized XML report rendering extension, org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.xml. The sample code creates a plug-in that writes the data contents of a report to a file in the specified format.</span></p>"
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