title: MS Project 2010 XML Export
body: <p>I have a question about MS Project XML Export. I have a project that, when exported to XML in MS Project, has some strange fields in the XML structure. Under the assignment nodes, there are tags named <code>&lt;f405040&gt;</code> and similar ones without any childern tags and no attributes. It looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;Project xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/project"&gt;
  &lt;UID&gt;105&lt;/UID&gt;
  ...
  &lt;Assignments&gt;
      &lt;Assignment&gt;
          &lt;TaskUID&gt;1&lt;/TaskUID&gt;
          &lt;ResourceUID&gt;-1&lt;/ResourceUID&gt;
          ...
          &lt;f405040&gt;&lt;/f405040&gt;
          &lt;f405050&gt;&lt;/f405050&gt;
          &lt;f405060&gt;&lt;/f405060&gt;
      &lt;/Assignment&gt;
  &lt;/Assignments&gt;
  &lt;/Project&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>These tags cause problems when trying to import the project into third-party applications, probably because they are not allowed according to the XML schema. Anyway, I cannot work with this XML in other applications. And since the other application directly uses the *.mpp-file and creates the XML on its own, I need to get rid of these fields in MSP.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know what to do with the *.msp-file in MS Project to get rid of these fields?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  Tobias</p>