se you can seed a database like so:
</p>			
<pre><code>
given "the database is properly seeded", {
 database_model("org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver",
    "jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://127.0.0.1", "sa", ""){
       return new File("./src/conf/seed.xml").text
    }
}			
</code></pre>			
			
<p>Using Groovy's <code>MarkupBuilder</code> is easy and lacks XML syntax: </p>	

<pre><code>
given "the database is properly seeded", {
 database_model("org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver",
  "jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://127.0.0.1", "sa", ""){
  