RE: xml middleware

Is there any xml standard to output database content?

Franck Martin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Shraibman [mailto:jks@selectacast.net]
Sent: Thursday, 11 January 2001 10:10
To: Adam Lang
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] xml middleware

Adam Lang wrote:
>
> I was even thinking more along the lines of a java program that acts as an
> interface where it receives a query from the user, sends it to postgreql
via
> jdbc, receives the result set, translates it into XML and returns it to
the
> user.
>
> Performance would be the isue, but something like that would be best
suited
> for internet applications and the performance is not as big of an issue.
> Plus, if you plan on using XML, you are expecting to take performance hits
> anyway.

That sounds like a trivial program.

Just loop through the result set and append to a StringBuffer.

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