Rails - May 2006 - Advice needed: Rails generating Java WebRowSet style XML

All,

My Rails app. is required to interface with some pre-existing stuff that 
consumes the XML output of a Java 1.5 WebRowSet.  If you''ve never seen 
once of these beasts, it is basically an XML-ized version of SQL data, 
chock full of table and column specific metadata.

I should be able to generate this without too much trouble, but wondered 
in anyone had any advice for me about how to handle generating it in the 
most flexible way.

Also, if anyone can point me in the direction of the hard-code DB 
metadata stuff in Ruby, I would very much appreciate it.

This WebRowSet XML is a good example of how XML can be a very 
non-intermediate type format, since it is effectively bound to the Java 
implementation (as least that''s what I''m thinking right now).

Thanks,
Wes

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Wes Gamble wrote:
> All,
> 
> My Rails app. is required to interface with some pre-existing stuff that 
> consumes the XML output of a Java 1.5 WebRowSet.  If you''ve never
seen
> once of these beasts, it is basically an XML-ized version of SQL data, 
> chock full of table and column specific metadata.
> 
> I should be able to generate this without too much trouble, but wondered 
> in anyone had any advice for me about how to handle generating it in the 
> most flexible way.
> 
> Also, if anyone can point me in the direction of the hard-code DB 
> metadata stuff in Ruby, I would very much appreciate it.
> 
> This WebRowSet XML is a good example of how XML can be a very 
> non-intermediate type format, since it is effectively bound to the Java 
> implementation (as least that''s what I''m thinking right
now).
> 
> Thanks,
> Wes
CORRECTION:

I meant to say above:

" Also, if anyone can point me in the direction of the _hard-core_ DB 
metadata stuff in Ruby, I would very much appreciate it."

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