I'm not sure about other DB vendors, but Oracle provides an XML Developer's Kit that includes:
XML SQL Utility: supporting Java, generates XML documents, DTDs and Schemas from SQL queries. Haven't used it before but it might be worth a look: http://otn.oracle.com/tech/xml/xdkhome.html The roll-your-own approach generally involves using ResultSetMetaData to dynamically build an XML doc that "looks" something like: <result-set> <row id="1"> <!-- each row subelement is a column --> <firstname>Joe</firstname> <lastname>Foo</lastname> ... </row> ... <result-set> I don't have a specific reference handy, but you should be able to find some example code floating around the net... Quoting David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --- Vijay Balakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there a way to return this resultset from a SQL Query as an xml file > > using a beanutils class or Digester ? > > I don't know of any class that does that. Every application will require > its own XML format anyways. > > David > > > > > Thanks, > > Vijay > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 7:25 PM > > To: Struts Users Mailing List > > Subject: Re: Iterating the resultset contents in the view (jsp) > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Richard Hill wrote: > > > > > Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 16:36:17 -0700 > > > From: Richard Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Iterating the resultset contents in the view (jsp) > > > > > > Hi, > > > I'm working on an action that gets a resultset from a database table > > > containing 4 columns. I need to pass that information back to the view > > > > > (jsp) which will iterate over results. My question is what is the best > > > > > way to do this. Do I create an array for each row in the resultset and > > > > > insert each array in a collection, passing that back to the view? > > > > > > > That is certainly one approach. Indeed, commons-beanutils has a useful > > little class (org.apache.commons.beanutils.RowSetDynaClass) that is > > ideally > > suited to this use case. It creates a List of DynaBeans representing > > the > > data content returned by the SELECT. Because it makes a copy, you can > > close > > the result set (and return the connection back to the connection pool) > > before forwarding to the page. > > > > > If so, how would you iterate over each array in the collection with > > > the logic:iterate taglib? All of the examples only show iterations > > > over single column lists. > > > > > > > Let's assume you have done this in your Action: > > > > ResultSet rs = ...; > > RowSetDynaClass rsdc = new RowSetDynaClass(rs); > > rs.close(); > > request.setAttribute("customers", rsdc.getList()); > > > > so you now have a request attribute containing the list. Now, in your > > page, > > you can say things like: > > > > <logic:iterate id="customer" name="customers"> > > Name is <bean:write name="customer" property="name"/> > > Status is <bean:write name="customer" property="status"/> > > </logic:iterate> > > > > and so on. Details of RowSetDynaClass are in the javadocs for > > BeanUtils: > > > > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/beanutils/ > > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Richard > > > > > > > Craig -- Kris Schneider <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D.O.Tech <http://www.dotech.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]