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• Subject: Re: RDBMS DB export
• From: Berend de Boer <berend@x...>
• Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:36:24 +1300
• Cc: Debasis Das <debasis.das@e...>
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Berend de Boer wrote:

> Let's hope so. This was really a mapping done by people who didn't 
> seem to know a thing about column names for example. There is no 
> guarantee that your column is a valid XML tag name. Actually, a column 
> name may contain spaces...
>
> Debasis, I suggest to roll your own. 

Sorry Debasis, I think my reply was to short to be very helpful: the 
hoops you have to go through to do proper mapping of column names to tag 
names for all cases is just not worth the effort: therefore my 
suggestion to not bother, roll your own and do only the things you have to.

Regards,

Berend. (-:

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  • Re: RDBMS DB export
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