I have some partly-finished Squeak code that creates a schema-specific validating XML parser & generator (well, data objects that do this) given an XSD. My motivating use case is to enable quick support of new XML-based file formats. So, you would design your objects as usual, then run my schema parser, which would stub out objects to parse & generate the new format. Then you would write tiny conversion methods between your objects and the new ones. Poof! Support for a new file format.
Partway through I found an enormous Java library that did something similar; it may be the one Phil mentions below. The one I recall was pretty big (13 namespaces) and I decided not to just port it because it seemed more complex than I thought was needed. On the other hand, it is finished, whereas.. I have been too busy to work on mine for several years now :( . So, I will hunt for it tonight & put the latest version somewhere other people can get & work on it. I don't remember what state it is in, but I never do so I think/hope it has lots of comments & tests for how I intended it to work. The other catch (besides it being half-finished) is, if/when I eventually start working on it again, I will turn it into a completely pedantic validating parser/emitter, because I want it to e.g. prevent XML injection without conscious thought from the developer using it. I am happy to help/advise anyone who wants this same goal to meet it, but if you want to add direct accessors or anything else that routes around the validation, please do so in a package that extends mine (in the same classes is fine) so that I can still meet my original intent when I eventually get back to it. Brenda On Oct 1, 2013, at 4:38 AM, "p...@highoctane.be" <p...@highoctane.be> wrote: > I mean that XSD is XML indeed but the usage is for defining structures, and > crafting all kinds of artifacts from there. > > I was involved with a project where a ton of XSDs were used to define > business message structures. > > Reading XML is not giving us reading XML with XSD schema validation nor > Classes generated from XSD files (as does Java JAXB). > > > https://jaxb.java.net/2.2.7/docs/ > > Phil > > > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote: >> >> Am 30.09.2013 um 19:35 schrieb p...@highoctane.be: >> >> > XSD is not the same. >> > >> What do you mean? >> >> Norbert >> >> > Guess you want to do something like JAXB or schema validation. But I don't >> > know of anything like that in Pharo... >> > >> > Phil >
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