Re: Advice on creating XML documents from MySQL

This is a job for XSLT, Steve. Most generic tools will dump your tables using the column names in the table. That probably won't match your customer. At that time, you use XSLT to translate your document format to their document format. I'm no expert at this, mind you, but the idea is pretty straightforward.

As usual, w3schools has a pretty good starting tutorial:

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/

Joe

I'm posting this here because this is more PC than i-related. It just
happens that the data currently exists on an iSeries system.

This will be essential an ETL tool...

What I want to build is a MySQL database on the PC that has normalized
tables that generically define data, for example a sales order header table,
an order detail table, header notes, detail notes, a table with order-level
address information, and so on.

An RPG program may be necessary to prepare the data for download to the PC,
then a file transfer of some sort or SQL will be used to extract the data
from the iSeries into the corresponding MySQL tables. I will then need to
generate an XML document from the MySQL tables that is in a certain format
that will be imported into a vendor's software package into their database -
I expect that the vendor has either a Schema or a DTD that describes the
XML.

Here's my real issue:

I know how to extract the data from the i and I know how to create the MySQL
tables...what I need is advice on what language/tool to use to generate the
appropriate XML from the MySQL tables, based on the vendor's DTD or Schema.

TIA,
Steve