Importing XML into a database with Scriptella ETL
The following Scriptella ETL simple usage example imports RSS file into a database table.
Here is the full version of the example described above. It creates an RSS table, downloads rss file, inserts rss records into a database, converts rss.xml to a plain text file and saves it to rss.txt.
<!DOCTYPE etl SYSTEM "http://scriptella.javaforge.com/dtd/etl.dtd"> <etl> <connection id="in" driver="xpath" url="http://snippets.dzone.com/rss"/> <connection id="db" driver="hsqldb" url="jdbc:hsqldb:db/rss" user="sa" classpath="hsqldb.jar"/> classpath="hsqldb.jar"/> <query connection-id="in"> /rss/channel/item <script connection-id="db"> INSERT INTO Rss (ID, Title, Description, Link) VALUES (?rownum, ?title, ?description, ?link); </script> </query> </etl>
Here is the full version of the example described above. It creates an RSS table, downloads rss file, inserts rss records into a database, converts rss.xml to a plain text file and saves it to rss.txt.
<!DOCTYPE etl SYSTEM "http://scriptella.javaforge.com/dtd/etl.dtd"> <etl> <connection id="in" driver="xpath" url="http://snippets.dzone.com/rss"/> <connection id="out" driver="text" url="rss.txt"/> <connection id="db" driver="hsqldb" url="jdbc:hsqldb:db/rss" user="sa" classpath="hsqldb.jar"/> <script connection-id="db"> CREATE TABLE Rss ( ID Integer, Title VARCHAR(255), Description VARCHAR(255), Link VARCHAR(255) ) </script> <query connection-id="in"> /rss/channel/item <script connection-id="out"> Title: $title Description: [ ${description.substring(0, 20)}... ] Link: $link ---------------------------------- </script> <script connection-id="db"> INSERT INTO Rss (ID, Title, Description, Link) VALUES (?rownum, ?title, ?description, ?link); </script> </query> </etl>
