March 07, 2007

XMI 2 SQL in No Time

I've just discovered how easy XMI (as used by Umbrello) is to parse. I spent most of yesterday putting together an entity relationship diagram of the DB structure for integrating a data warehouse with our catalogue. Today, faced with the prospect of having to hand craft about 30 tables I decided to take a look at the XMI format. It's really simple. I managed to knock up a quick parser to build SQL from the XMI file and hey presto! All my tables are built.


I don't have any private hosting at the moment but I'll get it up when I do.