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in reply to SQL -> XML Conversion

There is a very good reason for the current behaviour: NULL gets mapped to no element, empty string gets mapped to empty element.

If you really need to confuse the two concepts, you can write a SAX filter (put it between the generator and your consumer) which fills in the missing elements.

On a side note: if you need a CSV, why are you passing through XML?

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Re: Re: SQL -> XML Conversion
by set_uk (Pilgrim) on Apr 09, 2003 at 22:06 UTC
    I agree it appears confused. My theory was to query the db once - convert to XML then use multiple XSLT passes to build whatever output format I needed be it HTML, CSV or different XML format. It works ok - but the important thing is that I now know a hell of a lot more than when I started
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      If you need them to be distributed by a web server, you could give AxKit a try. AxKit comes with the AxKit::XSP::ESQL taglib that you could use to query the database and output XML at your pleasure -which you could them make available as an HTML page or whatever format you like.

      If you are interested in AxKit and the ESQL taglib you could also take a look at this article: Fun with ESQL.

      Ciao!
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