XML output from MySQL

Question

is there any chance of getting the output from a MySQL query directly to XML?

Im referring to something like MSSQL has with SQL-XML plugin, for example

Answer 1

Using XML with MySQL seems to be a good place to start with various different ways to get from MySQL query to XML.

From the article:

   use strict;
   use DBI;
   use XML::Generator::DBI;
   use XML::Handler::YAWriter;

   my $dbh = DBI->connect ("DBI:mysql:test",
                           "testuser", "testpass",
                           { RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 0});
   my $out = XML::Handler::YAWriter->new (AsFile => "-");
   my $gen = XML::Generator::DBI->new (
                                   Handler => $out,
                                   dbh => $dbh
                               );
   $gen->execute ("SELECT name, category FROM animal");
   $dbh->disconnect ();