MS Access stores all the tables and schema in a single .mdb file. It's more than possible that an OLE call exists to extract the schema by table. For example in ADO.Net, OleDbConnection.GetOleDbSchemaTable() method can be used to extract a schema.

you did not mention

• which os your using (implied by win32::odbc)
  
• assuming win32, what access drivers do you have?
  
• is the db encrypted? (no mention on site about this but could be a problem)
  
• what version of access files your using (mbt supports version 3/4)
  

method 1
DBIx::XML_RDB by matts - straight from the man docs ...

sql2xml.pl -sn myserver -driver myDriver -uid user -pwd seekrit -table user -output users.xml

here's a tute with code.

method 2
last ditch effort (requires linux box) you could try mbdtool to tackle step 4. here's a brief description of how to generate the schema of a ms access file. (from cvs) It's license is LGPL but may have limited availablity on win32 (base install requires glib2).

• download/install mbtools on *nix box.
  
• follow description how to generate schema - read docs.
  
• use redirection to get results
  

method 3
read the discussion on Microsoft access database on a Linux server from php ('success on mdb tools odbc install' post by lauram) using the MDBTools ODBC driver. Any reason this can't be done using perl?

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