public class DatabaseAssistant
{
	private static final String EXPORT_FILE_NAME = "/sdcard/export.xml";

	private Context _ctx;
	private SQLiteDatabase _db;
	private Exporter _exporter;

	public DatabaseAssistant( Context ctx, SQLiteDatabase db )
	{
		_ctx = ctx;
		_db = db;

		try
		{
			// create a file on the sdcard to export the
			// database contents to
			File myFile = new File( EXPORT_FILE_NAME );
                        myFile.createNewFile();

                        FileOutputStream fOut =  new FileOutputStream(myFile);
                        BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream( fOut );

			_exporter = new Exporter( bos );
		}
		catch (FileNotFoundException e)
		{
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		catch (IOException e)
		{
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	public void exportData( )
	{
		log( "Exporting Data" );

		try
		{
			_exporter.startDbExport( _db.getPath() );

			// get the tables out of the given sqlite database
	    	        String sql = "SELECT * FROM sqlite_master";

	    	        Cursor cur = _db.rawQuery( sql, new String[0] );
	    	        Log.d("db", "show tables, cur size " + cur.getCount() );
	    	        cur.moveToFirst();

	    	        String tableName;
	    	        while ( cur.getPosition() < cur.getCount() )
	    	        {
	    		        tableName = cur.getString( cur.getColumnIndex( "name" ) );
	    		        log( "table name " + tableName );

	    		        // don't process these two tables since they are used
	    		        // for metadata
	    		        if ( ! tableName.equals( "android_metadata" ) &&
	    				! tableName.equals( "sqlite_sequence" ) )
	    		        {
	    			        exportTable( tableName );
	    		        }

	    		        cur.moveToNext();
	    	        }
		        _exporter.endDbExport();
			_exporter.close();
		}
		catch (IOException e)
		{
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	private void exportTable( String tableName ) throws IOException
	{
		_exporter.startTable(tableName);

		// get everything from the table
		String sql = "select * from " + tableName;
		Cursor cur = _db.rawQuery( sql, new String[0] );
		int numcols = cur.getColumnCount();

		log( "Start exporting table " + tableName );

//		// logging
//		for( int idx = 0; idx < numcols; idx++ )
//		{
//			log( "column " + cur.getColumnName(idx) );
//		}

		cur.moveToFirst();

		// move through the table, creating rows
		// and adding each column with name and value
		// to the row
		while( cur.getPosition() < cur.getCount() )
		{
			_exporter.startRow();
			String name;
			String val;
			for( int idx = 0; idx < numcols; idx++ )
			{
				name = cur.getColumnName(idx);
				val = cur.getString( idx );
				log( "col '" + name + "' -- val '" + val + "'" );

				_exporter.addColumn( name, val );
			}

			_exporter.endRow();
			cur.moveToNext();
		}

		cur.close();

		_exporter.endTable();
	}

	private void log( String msg )
	{
		Log.d( "DatabaseAssistant", msg );
	}

	class Exporter
	{
		private static final String CLOSING_WITH_TICK = "'>";
		private static final String START_DB = "<export-database name='";
		private static final String END_DB = "</export-database>";
		private static final String START_TABLE = "<table name='";
		private static final String END_TABLE = "</table>";
		private static final String START_ROW = "<row>";
		private static final String END_ROW = "</row>";
		private static final String START_COL = "<col name='";
		private static final String END_COL = "</col>";

		private BufferedOutputStream _bos;

		public Exporter() throws FileNotFoundException
		{
			this( new BufferedOutputStream(
					_ctx.openFileOutput( EXPORT_FILE_NAME,
					Context.MODE_WORLD_READABLE ) ) );
		}

		public Exporter( BufferedOutputStream bos )
		{
			_bos = bos;
		}

		public void close() throws IOException
		{
			if ( _bos != null )
			{
				_bos.close();
			}
		}

		public void