New to XML!!! Help!!!

Question

Hi Everybody,
I am kind of new to XML... I would like to create a XML file from ResultSet.
Can some some please show me a simple example on how this can be done.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Here's a quick and dirty example:
public String toXML( String sql )
throws SQLException {
StringBuffer xml = new StringBuffer( 2048 );
xml.append( "<SQLResults>" );
int row = 0;
Connection connection = getConnection();
try {
Statement statement = connection.createStatement();
try {
ResultSet resultSet = statement.executeQuery( sql );
try {
ResultSetMetaData rsmd = resultSet.getMetaData();
while ( resultSet.next() ) {
row++;
xml.append( "<Row Count=\"" );
xml.append( row );
xml.append( "\">" );
for ( int i = 1; i <= rsmd.getColumnCount(); i++ ) {
String colName = rsmd.getColumnName( i );
String value = resultSet.getString( i );
xml.append( "<" + colName + ">" );
xml.append( ( value == null ) ? "" : value );
xml.append( "</" + colName + ">" );
xml.append( "</Row>" );
finally {
resultSet.close();
finally {
statement.close();
finally {
connection.close();
xml.append( "</SQLResults>" );
return xml.toString();
You'll need to check the column names and values returned for invalid XML characters (for example, an '&' as part of a value -- "Smith & Jones ").