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On 3 June 2013 12:02, Timothy W. Cook <timothywayne.cook@g...> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...> wrote: >> >> +1 Pretty much exactly my experience too. They reach for binding >> first, then bemoan xml in general after they hit all the usual >> problems with the binding approach. >> >> And the only reason they reach for binding, is because of a lack of >> knowledge of the apis out there, or the lack of a familiar api to use. > > My experience with binding tools (JAXB, PyXB, generateDS) has been > less than useful. > The code they create is almost impossible to trouble shoot and they do > not support advanced XML Schema concepts. > > But Andrew, maybe I include myself in that category of not being aware > of the APIs that are available. Could you exand on that with a couple > of examples? For example the dev is faced with the challenge of extracting the <title> and product/@id values from some xml. They could: - use xquery/xpath - use xom/jdom - use sax/stax instead they use a tool to generate an xsd from the xml, then use a binding tool to generate some classes, then use those generated classes. -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com
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