Getting ready

Import the ISFDB database as described in the Importing the data exported by mysqldump recipe in this chapter. Create a file called isfdb-001.sql using the following command line:

SELECT * FROM authors LIMIT 100;

We could put whatever commands we want in this file, or give it a different name, but this works for the purposes of this recipe. This file has the same name and contents as the file used in the previous recipe. If we've already completed that recipe, we can just reuse the same file.

How to do it...

How it works...

When the --xml flag is passed on the command line, the mysql command-line client will output a well-formed XML file, instead of a regular output.

On the command line we use the < and > redirectors to read in the isfdb-001.sql file and then to direct the output to the isfdb-001.xml file, respectively.

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