Creating XML from JDBC resultset

Question

Can anyone give me a pointer as the best way to create XML from a JDBC resultset. I have told that XSU cannot be used as it is vendor specific and ties us to Oracle (yawn, yawn).
Any ideas welcomed.

Answer 1

import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import org.w3.dom.*;
import javax.xml.dom.*;
import javax.xml.dom.source.*;
import javax.xml.dom.stream.*;
import java.sql.*;
public class CreateXML{
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf=DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db=dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc=db.newDocument();
Element root=doc.createElement("root_element");
// coonect to database
//get resultset metadata rsmd
while(rs.next()){
Element row=doc.createElement("row");
for(int j=1;j<=rsmd.getColumnCount();j++){
String colName=rsmd.getCoulmName(j);
String colValue=rs.getString(j);
Element e=doc.createElement(colName);
e.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(colValue));
row.appendChild(e);
root.appendChild(row);
doc.appendChild(root);
//You can now use XSLT to generate xml file thus:
TransformerFactory tmf=TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer tf=tmf.newTransformer();
DOMSource source=new DOMSource(doc);
StreamResult result=new StreamResult("name of file for output");
tf.transform(source,result);
// of course exceptions will have to be caught in this code.