Re: XML?

From: "Gavin M(dot) Roy" <gmr(at)justsportsusa(dot)com>
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Cc: Bjorn T Johansen <btj(at)havleik(dot)no>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: XML?
Date: 2003-08-08 05:31:42
Message-ID: 3F3335BE.8010602@justsportsusa.com
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Add an
echo $returnData
right after the pg_Close or it wont output the data... in response to
your followup, I doubt it would be hard to implement something similar
in java, it's just using the standard pg api to build the xml.

Gavin

Gavin M. Roy wrote:

> Here's some PHP code I use to do just that:
>
> <xml version="1.0">
> <?php
> function returnRecord($resultid, $row, $level) {
> $prepend = "";
> for ( $y = 0; $y < $level; $y++ )
> $prepend .= "\t";
>
> $record = $prepend . "<RECORD>\n";
> for ( $y = 0; $y < pg_NumFields($resultid); $y++ ) {
> $record .= $prepend . "\t<" . pg_FieldName($resultid, $y) . ">";
> $data = Trim(pg_Result($resultid, $row, $y));
> $data = ereg_replace("&", "&amp;", $data);
> $record .= $data;
> $record .= "</" . pg_FieldName($resultid, $y) . ">\n";
> }
> $record .= $prepend . "</RECORD>\n";
> return $record;
> }
>
> $conn = pg_Connect("my database connect string");
> $result = pg_Query($conn, "SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE;");
> $returnData = "";
> $rows = pg_NumRows($result);
> for ( $y = 0; $y < $rows; $y++ )
> $returnData .= returnRecord($result, $y, 1);
> pg_FreeResult($result);
> pg_Close($conn);
> ?>
> </xml>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Gavin
>
> Bjorn T Johansen wrote:
>
>> I need to convert recordsets to XML, is there an automatic way to do
>> this
>> in PostgreSQL or a tool I can use? Or do I have to code this manually?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> BTJ
>>
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