NAME

DBD::XMLSimple - Access XML data via the DBI interface

VERSION

Version 0.07

SYNOPSIS

Reads XML and makes it available via DBI.

Sadly DBD::AnyData doesn't work with the latest DBI and DBD::AnyData2 isn't out yet, so I am writing this pending the publication of DBD::AnyData2

DBD-XMLSimple doesn't yet expect to support complex XML data, so that's why it's not called DBD-XML.

use FindBin qw($Bin);
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:XMLSimple(RaiseError => 1):');

$dbh->func('person', 'XML', "$Bin/../data/person.xml", 'xmlsimple_import');

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM person");

Input data will be something like this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
    <table>
	<row id="1">
	    <name>Nigel Horne</name>
	    <email>njh@bandsman.co.uk</email>
	</row>
	<row id="2">
	    <name>A N Other</name>
	    <email>nobody@example.com</email>
	</row>
    </table>

If a leaf appears twice it will be concatenated

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
    <table>
	<row id="1">
	    <name>Nigel Horne</name>
	    <email>njh@bandsman.co.uk</email>
	    <email>nhorne@pause.org</email>
	</row>
    </table>

    $sth = $dbh->prepare("Select email FROM person");
    $sth->execute();
    $sth->dump_results();

    Gives the output "njh@bandsman.co.uk,nhorne@pause.org"

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

driver

No routines in this module should be called directly by the application.

AUTHOR

Nigel Horne, <njh at bandsman.co.uk>

BUGS

SEE ALSO

DBD::AnyData, which was also used as a template for this module.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc DBD::XMLSimple

You can also look for information at:

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2016-2024 Nigel Horne.

This program is released under the following licence: GPL