in reply to XML Conversion of Tables

"I like to find solution for related tables."

That's not a Perl request. That is a database design request. And with your current design, i don't see how you can get what you want, but given the data from your second table (which i will call bb) and this data for the first table (which i will call aa):
mysql> select * from aa;
+------+--------+--------+--------+
| id   | field1 | field2 | field3 |
+------+--------+--------+--------+
|    1 | f      | b      | b      |
|    2 | q      | d      | b      |
+------+--------+--------+--------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
You can use the following SQL statement to join the two tables:

SELECT aa.id, aa.field1, aa.field2, aa.field3,
       bb.type, bb.value
FROM aa
INNER JOIN bb ON aa.id = bb.id;
This yields:
+------+--------+--------+--------+------+-------+
| id   | field1 | field2 | field3 | type | value |
+------+--------+--------+--------+------+-------+
|    1 | f      | b      | b      | X    | a     |
|    1 | f      | b      | b      | X    | p     |
|    1 | f      | b      | b      | Y    | m     |
|    2 | q      | d      | b      | Z    | a     |
|    2 | q      | d      | b      | X    | a     |
+------+--------+--------+--------+------+-------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
(looks like i got some of your data wrong :P ... anyhoo)

Why the dupes? Because of the design. If you really want that ID only once, you will have to either fix your design or use a module that forces allows you to intervene with the XML creation process. Yuck. I'd rather fix the design then code something like:

use strict; use warnings; use DBI; use XML::Writer; use Data::Dumper; my $dbh = DBI->connect( ... ); my $writer = XML::Writer->new(); $writer->xmlDecl('UTF-8'); $writer->doctype('xml'); $writer->startTag('xml'); my $aa_sql = 'select id,field1,field2,field3 from AA'; my $bb_sql = 'select type, value from BB where id = ?'; for my $row (@{$dbh->selectall_arrayref($aa_sql)}) { $writer->startTag('foo',id => $row->[0]); $writer->dataElement("field$_",$row->[$_]) for 1..3; # warning: i should check for 'bars' before i start a tag $writer->startTag('bars'); for $_ (@{$dbh->selectall_arrayref($bb_sql,undef,$row->[0])}) { $writer->dataElement('bar',$_->[1],type => $_->[0]); } $writer->endTag('bars'); $writer->endTag(); } $writer->endTag('xml'); $dbh->disconnect;
But again, since i don't know what you are trying to do (man you sure are cryptic in your questions!) ... i coded something silly (again).

jeffa

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