SSRS 2008 rendering of HTML markup (does not allow .xml links)

Question

I am trying to create links to infopath forms stored in sharepoint. This is MOSS 3 so they are not web based forms. If I create a link through HTML markup within a placeholder it renders fine until I make it a .xml extension. I'm using HTML markup because they need to display in Outlook 2007 too. Am I missing some way to make this work?

="<a href=""" & "http://sharepoint/production/Library/Form " & CStr(Fields!FormNumber.Value) & ".gif"& """> test </a>"

^works fine

="<a href=""" & "http://sharepoint/production/Library/Form " & CStr(Fields!FormNumber.Value) & ".xml"& """> test </a>"

^doesn't appear

Answer 1

Just to update my issue here as it was more complicated then I thought. Here's a reference to the issue. It has nothing to with xml links or spacing. It's actually working links that it fails to render, incorrect links to error pages work fine. (confusing? I know, right?) The javascript solution didn't work for me b/c I need it to work with Outlook 2007. What finally worked was reversing the slashes e.g.

 http:\\sharepoint  

Answer 2

The solution is:

Drop the space between ...Form and &...

Answer 3

I've copied your xml url and in SSRS 2008R2 works fine (Can't test it in SSRS 2008). Maybe you should try to use Action->Go To Url instead of HTML murkup?