Re: MySQL client and the XML format

[Roland Bouman]

Bjarke Walling Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been playing around with the XML feature in
> the MySQL client. Is it possible to include the
> type of each field?
>
> Try this query: SELECT NULL, 'NULL'; You won't be
> able to tell if a field is NULL or contains the
> string NULL. It could be nice as well to tell if a
> field is an integer, a string or something else.

add a feature request at bugs.mysql.org

> I will also look forward to have a XML output
> feature included directly in the MySQL server.

http://tangent.org/index.pl?lastnode_id=478&node_id=388

> Thanks in advance,
> Bjarke Walling Petersen