On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, David Chaplin-Loebell wrote: > So... > > How are people turning information from SQL databases into XML for AxKit? > I'm thinking the best way to do this would be to use a provider. Has > anyone done this yet? > > My concept is that a generic provider could take the rows returned by DBI > and parse them into XML. > > So a query like: SELECT id, name FROM foo > > which returns: > id name > -- ---- > 1 fish > 2 cat > > would come out of the provider like so > > <foo> > <id>1</id> > <name>fish</name> > </foo> > <foo> > <id>1</id> > <name>fish</name> > </foo> > > Has anyone already written this provider? Am I on the right track in > assuming this would be how to do it?
It's one way to do it. I personally haven't used the provider method (see the Wiki for how I did it), because I feel it lacks flexibility. It was originally meant as a publishing layer, and I'm not entirely sure it's powerful enough for building web apps (whereas writing a plain perl module and interfacing to it with XSP is), but that doesn't mean its the wrong way to do it. -- <!-- Matt --> <:->get a SMart net</:-> Spam trap - do not mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
