Example Schema: XML

This example shows how you can import records from an XML document.

With the following schema:

xml
table accounts
field acctno varchar accounts/account@acctno ''
field firstName varchar accounts/account/firstName ''
field lastName varchar accounts/account/lastName ''
field balance float accounts/account/balance 0

Importing the following XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<accounts>
  <account acctno="12345">
    <firstName>John</firstName>
    <lastName>Smith</lastName>
    <balance>1532.43</balance>
  </account>
  <account acctno="67890">
    <firstName>Jane</firstName>
    <lastName>Doe</lastName>
    <balance>1.32</balance>
  </account>
  <account acctno="13579">
    <firstName>Mike</firstName>
    <lastName>Schmidt</lastName>
  </account>
</accounts>

Will get you a table like the following:

id       acctno    firstName     lastName      balance
------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
4284d70513   12345        John         Smith             1532.43
4284d70516   67890        Jane         Doe                  1.32
4284d70519   13579        Mike         Schmidt                 0

Note that because the balance wasn't present in the 3rd record, it took on the default value from the schema (0).