Producing XML Output

2017-11-03 09:05:05

1.25.1 Problem

You'd like to turn a query result into XML.

1.25.2 Solution

mysql can do that for you.

1.25.3 Discussion

mysql creates an XML document from the result of a query if you use the -X (or --xml) option. Here's an example that shows the difference between tabular format and the XML created from the same query:

% mysql -e "SELECT * FROM limbs WHERE legs=0" cookbook +------------+------+------+ | thing | legs | arms | +------------+------+------+ | squid | 0 | 10 | | octopus | 0 | 8 | | fish | 0 | 0 | | phonograph | 0 | 1 | +------------+------+------+ % mysql -X -e "SELECT * FROM limbs WHERE legs=0" cookbook squid 0 10 octopus 0 8 fish 0 0 phonograph 0 1

-X and --xml may be used as of MySQL 4.0. If your version of MySQL is older than that, you can write your own XML generator. See Recipe 10.42.

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