DBIx::XML_RDB 0.05 review

DBIx::XML_RDB is a Perl extension for creating XML from existing DBI datasources. SYNOPSIS use DBIx::XML_RDB; my $xmlout =

License: Perl Artistic License File size: 6K Developer: Matt Sergeant

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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 client's browser, and then use either XML::Parser from PerlScript, or MSXML from VBScript/JavaScript on the client's 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:
Perl