Thursday, April 15, 2004, 1:47:01 PM, rich coco wrote: > this is a bit off topic i suppose, but here goes...
> does anyone know of an open-source translation toolkit > that ultimately would generate code to map XML to/from SQL? > Or maybe i am not phrasing the question properly. > What I am looking for is a translation layer between > the use of relational technology for storing and processing data > and the hierarchical representation of the data - as XML in particular - > for things like presentation and transport. Look for Object-Relational mapping or bridge software. The Hibernate tools http://www.hibernate.org do what you want, but in Java. There is a mapping from Java classes and collections to/from RDBs. This same mapping can optionally be used to generate (dunno about read) an XML representation of an object. e --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]