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

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

<p>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?</p>

At least in version 8.5 XML-file is one of the supported export destinations just like PDF, Excel or Word. Seems unlikely they'd have removed the support in later versions.