Re: XML -> PG ?

On May 6, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Eric Schwarzenbach wrote:

> Gauthier, Dave wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to read an XML file into a postgres DB?  I’m thinking
>> that it will create and relate whatever tables are necessary to
>> reflect whatever’s implied by the XML file structure.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers !
>>
> That's a pretty common problem, and not one that needs to have a
> postgresql-specific solution. There are definitely solutions out
> there,
> but it may take some Googling to find a good one for your needs. One
> option might be data binding tools (Castor and Liquid XML come to
> mind)
> with which you can definitely go from XML to SQL, though many of them
> may require going through an intermediate object model.
>
> A simple approach (simple depending what technologies you're using and
> are already familiar with) might be to use XSLT to transform your XML
> either directly into SQL or into some other format easily loaded to a
> database (such as the XML format used by DbUnit).
>
> Eric


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