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Have a look at <http://WWW.CAM.ORG/~nrivard/uml/umlxchng.html> which is UML expressed in XML. /anders Dean Roddey wrote: > "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...) > 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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