# Dump all UDT instance details to XML?

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**Created:** [November 30, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dump-all-udt-instance-details-to-xml/41054 "2020-11-30T17:36:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/dump-all-udt-instance-details-to-xml/41054/1 "2020-11-30T17:36:14Z")

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Version 8.0. I’m trying to write a script to export a **full** UDT instance to an XML file, and by using **untangle** , walk the document and output parts of it into a CSV file for editing in Excel. I started with **system.tag.exportTags()**, but that appears to only export things that are different from the UDT definition? **system.tag.getConfiguration()**, however, does appear to dump everything, but it’s in a Python dictionary format and not XML.

Before I change my script from walking XML to walking a dictionary, is there a way to get a full dump like **getConfiguration()** does, but in XML format?