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"I'm looking for a way of representing C/C++ data types in XML. I've been searching around on the web and found references to some existing XML that does this, but I haven't found the document itself. Can someone give me a hand with this?" This is related to something I was thinking about the other day. If I'm going to write some code to manipulate very 'record oriented' XML data, I'd often end up having a class that represents the records, into which I load the data after parsing it in. One thing that would greatly ease the job of doing this would be a program that would take an XML schema, a translation file, and spit out a class that represents the schema (with getters/setters/serialization/etc... appropriate for the language and library.) It could also automatically spit out a method that would (given a DOM fragment of that record type), [expletive deleted] out the data for that XML record into itself (and vice versa to update the DOM fragment to represent itself again. The translation obviously could also be an XML file in which a set of tags are defined that allow the translation to be customized, for instance a type mapping tag that says any type foo:int should map to tCIDLib::TInt4 or something like that. So, when the XML changes, I can just rerun the translator and spit out the new class. Any added value I would just provide in a derived class, so that the underlying data management class can be spit out as required, without losing any of my code. You could do a translation file for Java, for C++ STL, I could do one for my CIDLib libraries, etc... Is anyone doing something like this? Or is this just another dumb idea (something I'm good at :-) It almost enough trouble to do a translation file that it wouldn't be worth it unless you had a lot of different XML data records and/or a lot of different languages to spit out representations for. But the ability to spit out a method automatically to pull out the data into/outof the record would be nice in many cases. Just a thought anyway... ---------------------------------------- Dean Roddey Software Weenie IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley roddey@u... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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