• From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>
• To: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@g...>,"Timothy W. Cook" <timothywayne.cook@g...>
• Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 13:22:14 +0100

Original Message From: "Andrew Welch"
>
> 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.

If you just have sample XML files as your data model, which change rapidly, 
isn't there a risk that everybody has a different idea of what the data 
model is?  At least with an XSD there is a definitive documented data 
structure.

Pete Cordell
Codalogic Ltd
C++ tools for C++ programmers, http://codalogic.com
Read & write XML in C++, http://www.xml2cpp.com

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