DBIx::XML_RDB 0.05

DBIx::XML_RDB is a Perl extension for creating XML from existing DBI datasources. SYNOPSIS use DBIx::XML_RDB; my $xmlout = DBIx::XML_RDB->new($datasource, "ODBC", $userid, $password, $dbname) || die "Failed to make new xmlout"; $xmlout->DoSql("select * from MyTable"); print $xmlout->GetData; This module is a simple creator of XML data from DBI datasources. It allows you to easily extract data from a database, and manipulate later using XML::Parser. One use of this module might be (and will be soon from me) to extract data on the web server, and send the raw data (in XML format) to a clients browser, and then use either XML::Parser from PerlScript, or MSXML from VBScript/JavaScript on the clients machine to generate HTML (obviously this relies upon using MS IE for their Active Scripting Engine, and MSXML comes with IE5beta). Another use is a simple database extraction tool, which is included, called sql2xml. This tool simply dumps a table in a database to an XML file. This can be used in conjunction with xml2sql (part of the XML::DBI(?) package) to transfer databases from one platform or database server to another. Binary data is encoded using UTF-8. This is automatically decoded when parsing with XML::Parser. Included with the distribution is a "Scriptlet" - this is basically a Win32 OLE wrapper around this class, allowing you to call this module from any application that supports OLE. To install it, first install the scriptlets download from microsoft at http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting. Then right-click on XMLDB.sct in explorer and select "Register". Create your object as an instance of "XMLDB.Scriptlet"..

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	Linux
Keyword:	Creating,  Creating Xml,  Data,  Database,  Dbix,  Dbixxmlrdb,  Existing,  Extension,  Libraries,  Perl,  Programming,  Rdb
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