Re: [xml] code generation for C++

[Tony Graham <Tony Graham Sun COM>]

Dave Malcolm <david davemalcolm demon co uk> wrote at Thu, 20 Nov 2003 02:24:05 +0000:
> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 01:34, William Brodie-Tyrrell wrote:
> > (warning: xml n00b)
>
> IIRC, the xmlroff project at SourceForge had something like this, though
> it generates GObjects in C, rather than C++ classes.
...
> > Can anyone point me at a package that will generate c++ headers and code to
> > represent (and load using libxml2) a data structure defined by a DTD?  I
> > hacked one up in Perl but its parser is extremely brain-dead and so supports
> > only a very limited subset of possible DTDs (it can't handle much more than
> > the following example).

No, xmlroff uses XSLT to generate C code from the XML version of the
XSL Recommendation, not from a DTD.

I'd suggest converting the DTD to the XML form of Relax-ng and then
using XSLT to generate your C++ classes from the XML.

If you want to stick with Perl, find Earl Hood's perlSGML package that
includes functions for parsing DTDs.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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