I edited my posted you commented on using SQL::Abstract, but I like your way better with the sorting. It looks like it will work well, but since other parameters are being passed besides just column names (like order by, where clauses) I can't really push it all in which is why I was doing it one by one, but then again, that's the only way I thought of doing it. So in my edited posted, I mentioned doing 
 while (my $row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref ){
        <<<<SOME KIND OF XML::SIMPLE PUSH HERE???>>>>>
 }

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I am confused on how to make the column names the element tags, and the returned values in the hash ($row), into XML tags. I will continue to read about the XML::Simple, but all pointers are extremely appreciated.

In reply to Re^4: Building SQL Query on the fly by hallikpapa
in thread Building SQL Query on the fly by hallikpapa

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