Let's suppose that you have an XML document and you need to process its data in a compiling language, such as C or C++. In such a case, you would have to create a program that would automatically parse the requested documents, basing on their structure.
XSD from CodeSynthesis comes to help the programmer work with XML data structures by automating the process of creation of code by creating the required C++ classes from an XML instance specification file.
By using CodeSynthesis XSD, you can easily create programs that work directly
This article by Simon Sprott begins: "XML Data Binding allows you to manipulate an XML document via a set of simple objects. The rules defining the 'shape' of the XML document are described in an XML schema. Typically, it is possible to read an XML document into an XML binding library and manipulate it programmatically via simple get and set methods. Conversely, a document can be created from an XML data binding library, and serialized as an XML document."
It then launches into a chart and example rich comparison of the various schema creation
"CodeSynthesis XSD is an open-source, cross-platform W3C XML Schema to C++ data binding compiler. Provided with an XML instance specification (XML Schema), it generates C++ classes that represent the given vocabulary as well as parsing and serialization code. You can then access the data stored in XML using types and functions that semantically correspond to your application domain rather than dealing with intricacies of reading and writing XML.... The process of extracting the data from a direct representation of XML (such as DOM or SAX) and
XForms
Yesterday I played with XForms. I have not yet taken the time to read the specification. Instead, I used some examples I found at Bugzilla and the Mozilla XForms project site. Not really the correct way to learn new things, especially since the implementation has some bugs and I might end up thinking such a bug is actually the correct behavior. (Anyone seeing the similarities with the CSS implementation in Internet Explorer? Take the box model for a good example.)
Although I still think XForms is rather complex and could have used some
The XML Schema WG is currently working towards the completion of XML Schema 1.1, which is intended to be mostly compatible with XML Schema 1.0 and to have approximately the same scope, but also to fix bugs and make whatever improvements we can, consistent with the constraints on scope and compatibility. A Last Call working draft of XML Schema 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes was published on 17 February 2006; a new Working Draft of XML Schema 1.1 Part 1: Structures is expected soon.
If you have suggestions for specific requirements for XML Schema 1.1 (or for
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