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    <p>I would like to better understand the basic steps needed to a take an XML document like this Breakfast Menu...</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?&gt; &lt;breakfast_menu&gt; &lt;food&gt; &lt;name&gt;Belgian Waffles&lt;/name&gt; &lt;price&gt;$5.95&lt;/price&gt; &lt;description&gt;two of our famous Belgian Waffles with plenty of real maple syrup&lt;/description&gt; &lt;calories&gt;650&lt;/calories&gt; &lt;/food&gt; &lt;food&gt; &lt;name&gt;Strawberry Belgian Waffles&lt;/name&gt; &lt;price&gt;$7.95&lt;/price&gt; &lt;description&gt;light Belgian waffles covered with strawberries and whipped cream&lt;/description&gt; &lt;calories&gt;900&lt;/calories&gt; &lt;/food&gt; &lt;food&gt; &lt;name&gt;Berry-Berry Belgian Waffles&lt;/name&gt; &lt;price&gt;$8.95&lt;/price&gt; &lt;description&gt;light Belgian waffles covered with an assortment of fresh berries and whipped cream&lt;/description&gt; &lt;calories&gt;900&lt;/calories&gt; &lt;/food&gt; &lt;food&gt; &lt;name&gt;French Toast&lt;/name&gt; &lt;price&gt;$4.50&lt;/price&gt; &lt;description&gt;thick slices made from our homemade sourdough bread&lt;/description&gt; &lt;calories&gt;600&lt;/calories&gt; &lt;/food&gt; &lt;food&gt; &lt;name&gt;Homestyle Breakfast&lt;/name&gt; &lt;price&gt;$6.95&lt;/price&gt; &lt;description&gt;two eggs, bacon or sausage, toast, and our ever-popular hash browns&lt;/description&gt; &lt;calories&gt;950&lt;/calories&gt; &lt;/food&gt; &lt;/breakfast_menu&gt; </code></pre> <p>And "export" it to say, an Access or MySQL database using XSLT, creating two joined tables:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Table</strong>: breakfast_menu <ul> <li>Field: <strong>menu_item_id</strong></li> <li>Field: <strong>food_id</strong></li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Table</strong>: <em>food</em> <ul> <li>Field: <strong>food_id</strong></li> <li>Field: <strong>name</strong></li> <li>Field: <strong>price</strong></li> <li>Field: <strong>description</strong></li> <li>Field: <strong>calories</strong></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p>If there are online tutorials on this that you know of, I'd be interesting in learning more, as well. </p> <p>Thanks.</p>
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    1. COXSLT can be used to generate the necessary INSERT INTO SQL commands for the population of the tables. However, the provided XML doesn't have any data related to `menu_item_id`
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    2. CODo you have an example of what this XSLT would look like?
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    3. COUh, is there some reason you can't export directly, i.e., link your MySQL table to Access and just append the data?
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