[Boost-interest] Fwd: [ANN] xsd - open source XML Schema to C++ translator

From: Marshall Clow (marshall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-24 10:53:47

>From: Boris Kolpackov <boris_at_[hidden]>
>Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:23:01 +0000 (UTC)
>Subject: [boost] [ANN] xsd - open source XML Schema to C++ translator
>
>Good day,
>
>I would like to announce the availability of xsd, a cross-platform, open
>source W3C XML Schema to C++ translator. Provided with an XML instance
>description (XML Schema), it generates C++ classes that represent the
>given vocabulary as well as parsing and serialization code:
>
>http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsd/
>
>
>Compared to APIs such as DOM and SAX, the generated code allows you
>to access the information in XML instance documents using your domain
>vocabulary instead of generic elements, attributes, and text. Static
>typing helps catch errors at compile-time rather than at run-time.
>Automatic code generation frees you for more interesting tasks and
>minimizes the effort needed to adopt to changes in the document
>structure.
>
>xsd supports two C++ mappings: in-memory C++/Tree and event-driven
>C++/Parser. The C++/Tree mapping consists of C++ classes that represent
>data types defined in XML Schema, a set of parsing functions that convert
>XML instance documents to a tree-like in-memory data structure, and a set
>of serialization functions that convert the in-memory representation back
>to XML. For an introduction to the C++/Tree mapping refer to the C++/Tree
>Mapping Quick Guide:
>
>http://codesynthesis.com/projects/xsd/documentation/cxx/tree/quick-guide/
>
>
>The C++/Parser mapping provides parser templates for data types defined
>in XML Schema. Using these parser templates you can build your own
>in-memory representations or perform immediate processing of XML instance
>documents. For an introduction to the C++/Parser mapping refer to the
>C++/Parser Mapping Quick Guide:
>
>http://codesynthesis.com/projects/xsd/documentation/cxx/parser/quick-guide/
>
>
>xsd runs on a range of platforms, including GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X,
>Solaris, and HP-UX. Supported C++ compilers include GNU g++, Intel C++,
>Sun C++, HP aCC, and Microsoft Visual C++.
>
>The translator is built using filesystem and regex libraries from boost.
>
>-boris