[short form] I'm looking for an object-oriented toolkit that will do for SQL what Perl's CGI.pm module, or Python's HTMLgen, does for HTML. Pointers, examples, or expressions of interest would be welcome. [long form] Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm module for Perl allows me to build HTML in an object-oriented way, instead of getting caught in the Turing tarpit of string substitution and printf. DOM does the same (in a variety of languages) for XML. Right now, if I want to interact with an SQL database from Perl or Python, I have to embed SQL strings in my programs. I would like to have a DOM-like ability to build and manipulate queries as objects, then call a method that translate the query structure into SQL to send to the database. Alternatively, if there is an XML DTD for SQL (how's that for a chain of TLAs?), and some tool to convert the XML/SQL to pure SQL, so that I could build my query using DOM, that would be cool too. RSVP, Greg Wilson gvwilson@nevex.com