| I want to connect to my database and use the data as xml for further
| processing... How can i connect to a database? I have been trying to reach

One easy way is using the Oracle XML SQL Utility, which
can use any JDBC driver against any database and produce
SQL query results in XML as a DOM, a String, a Stream,
or a SAX2 event stream.

It's part of our "Oracle XDK for Java" at:

http://otn.oracle.com/tech/xml

and it's free with free runtime license. :-)
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Steve Muench - Developer, Product Manager, XML Evangelist, Author
"Building Oracle XML Applications" - www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp



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