Processing XML with Java™: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX

Relational Databases

Relational databases are another common source of data for XML documents. Some databases such as FileMaker Pro have built-in support for outputting tables as XML documents. Others do not. However, even if your database can export tables as XML documents, its XML format may not be the XML format you want. Fortunately, as long as there's a JDBC driver for your database of choice, it's not hard to extract the information from it and write that information into an XML document in the desired form.

For this example, I'll use the same budget data previously read out of a CSV file in a single relational table that reflects the original flat structure of the files distributed by the Office of Management and Budget. Doubtless they ...