Self-Closing Tags in XML Extract Reports

For extract reports in XML format, you can now choose to insert a self-closing tag for fields that contain null values, instead of simply omitting the tags.

Checking the box for "Output if null"

Checking the Output if null option for a field means that even if this field contains no data, it will still be included in the XML report.

Option not checked:

<XML>
  <SPRIDEN_FIRST_NAME>Joe</SPRIDEN_FIRST_NAME>
  <SPRIDEN_LAST_NAME>Onofrio</SPRIDEN_LAST_NAME>
  <SPRIDEN_ID>610009608</SPRIDEN_ID>
</XML>

Option checked:

<XML>
  <SPRIDEN_FIRST_NAME>Joe</SPRIDEN_FIRST_NAME>
<SPRIDEN_MI></SPRIDEN_MI>
  <SPRIDEN_LAST_NAME>Onofrio</SPRIDEN_LAST_NAME>
  <SPRIDEN_ID>610009608</SPRIDEN_ID>
</XML>

On the Settings tab, check the option for Compact tag notation, which will condense the tags for null fields by using a self-closing tag:

Compact tag notation - when checked the smallest possible XML notation is used

Option checked:

<XML>
  <SPRIDEN_FIRST_NAME>Joe</SPRIDEN_FIRST_NAME>
<SPRIDEN_MI/>      <-- using self-closing tag
  <SPRIDEN_LAST_NAME>Onofrio</SPRIDEN_LAST_NAME>
  <SPRIDEN_ID>610009608</SPRIDEN_ID>
</XML>