Hibernate version: 1.2.0.3001


I am using SQL Server Express primarily as my data store, but every now and then I would like to export one of my entities in the form of an XML file, and later load an entity (read only) from an XML file. Should I just use standard .NET serialization in this case, or is there an approach I can use with the NHibernate framework for this file exporting/importing?

Thanks for the link Gortok, but I am not sure that really answers my question. That link seems to deal with how to handle XML data in a particular field, not how to use NHibernate to persist a class to a file in XML format.

Just curious if anyone has anymore info on this topic? If not, I guess I will go ahead and just use .NET serialization.

Hi.

Why not use SQLite. It is a flat file database NHibernate supports

Ciao

I am the lead contractor for a large corporation. We use SQLServer on the corporate servers and use SQLServer Express on the employees laptops and replicate data to the central server. There is a requirement to export some information to a flat file and that is why I am inquiring.

I would use NHibernate to inflate the objects and use serialization to get the xml. As long as you can tame .Net xml serialization it is quite powerful.

If you want to eliminate the application layer completely, you could you sqlxml to create xml straight out of db.