Monks,

I have a data structure (an arbitrary array of arrays containing data rows downloaded from a database) that I'd like to convert to XML in some simple form.

I've written a conceptual XML outline that I'd like to make use of, basically as follows: 

<dataset>
   <row>
      <column1-name>value</column1-name>
      <column2-name>value</column2-name>
      <column3-name>value</column3-name>
   </row>
   <row>
       ...
   </row>
</dataset>

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but I'm unsure where to go from here. Is there a simple XML module that can assist with the creation of such an XML document, or am I better off hand-rolling the XML?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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In reply to Converting a data structure to XML by Tanalis

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