does anyone know of an open-source translation toolkit that ultimately would generate code to map XML to/from SQL? Or maybe i am not phrasing the question properly.
What I am looking for is a translation layer between the use of relational technology for storing and processing data and the hierarchical representation of the data - as XML in particular - for things like presentation and transport.
I understand that Microsoft has a product called the Web Services Toolkit, which is specific to MS SQL Server that does this kind of thing. i am wondering if their may exist a generic open-source framework:
* for specifying the relationship between an XML Schema and a
RDBMS table schema * importing such a relationship (using whatever grammar) and
generating class definitions that implement the desired translation
layer.the goal would be to abstract out of the application the entire DB schema and allow the application to work exclusively with XML - and the generated methods - wrt not only data representation and transport but data storage and retrieval too. (ie, the application need not care about databases schemas and the specifics regarding data persistence, etc.
google-ing hasn't helped me here, but that may be because i'm not google-ing smartly. i am open to suggestions as to where else I might post such a query.
tia,
- rich
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