Skins are fundamental concept in WDBI.

Skins process (for example print) the result of the query.

Result of a query can be:

• scalar
• row (class)
• column (set of scalar)
• table (set of class)
• graph (two tables)
• set of expressions (prolog)

Use cases:

• HTML table
• HTML editable table
• HTML card
• HTML div/span
• HTML editable form
• plain
• preformatted
• XUL table
• XUL form
• XUL tree
• XUL tabs
• Excel
• CSV
• RDF
• Graphs of various sorts

GUI targets:

• Console
• Dumb HTML
• HTML 4
• AJAX HTML
• XHTML2/XForms
• XUL
• PerlTK :)
• Gnome/GTK
• Qt
• Mac Cocoa
• Widnows
• Compile to PHP, ASP

Support magic varibles: wdbi$class, wdbi$id, etc...

SELECT id AS wdbi$id