Any XML Publisher Guru's out there?

[Rootstonian]

Looks like our shop will be moving away from SQR programs to XML Publisher. I get assigned the fun task of doing this. No training of course

SQR was a C-like language that allowed you to embed SQL in it..for example

Begin-Procedure New-Hires
Begin-Select

emplid,
last_name,
first_name

     let $name = &last_name || ',' || &first_name
     let $emplid = rtrim(&emplid, ' ')

    do Print-Employee-Detail-Line

from employee_table
where hire_date >= '2007-01-01'

End-Select

End-Procedure New-Hires

What was nice about this is you could call other routines in a result set (like above), do all kinds of calculations and other neat stuff and create some really cool reports, and most importantly in my job, DATA FILES!

I'm ok with generating a simple report via XML, I just wonder if someone can point me to how one creates data files

[Rootstonian]

What? No XML folks!