Thanks for reply. Could you please give me one example and where I can get enough matter to write the code.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Johann Spies <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 July 2015 at 23:43, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > >> All of the effort will be in parsing the XML, so you should check the >> documentation of the various XML libraries and ask questions in their >> forums (or on Stack Overflow). The details will depend on the structure of >> your XML. Ultimately, you want to loop over the records in the XML, and for >> each record, build a dictionary where the keys are the DAL table field >> names and the values are the record values you want to insert. Once you >> have such a dictionary, the DAL insert for a single record is simple: >> >> db.mytable.insert(**record_dictionary) >> > > Another approach is to import the XML-data directly into a PostgreSQL > table with and id (primary key) field and another field with the type XML. > This can be queried using XPATH-like syntax in PostgreSQL (from web2py > using exexutesql) and if you want to import that into 'normal' tables, this > can be done within PostgreSQL using the above-mentioned xpath-based queries. > > Both ways have a learning curve if you are not used to parsing XML-data. > > Regards > Johann > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/ccWa_xekecQ/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
