Greetings! These are a kind of beginners question ... not on Xerces-C but on if I should use Xerces-C, and about XML, XML Schema and the XML / C++ combination.
************************************************* This is an application that uses text-files in a proprietary format to store information, this format and supporting logic should be converted to XML, some of the files should be manipulated as DOM. The code should be cross-platform C++ (Windows Mac OS/X). My own environment is Visual C++ 7.1 Myself I know some XML, but not much about Schema and DOM. My plan is to use XML-Spy to write Schemas and XML, and use the code generation for Xerxes-C. *Is this a good choice? What would be the main alternatives? Instead of XML-Spy I might use what comes with VS, also we might use some Qt in the project, but I think it (the Qt XML libraries) are more low-end than Xerxes-C.......... *Should I read up on / know about other technologies than DOM and Schema? *For learning, should I just start to work with Xerxes C and XML-Spy, or should I read books on Schema and DOM? *BOOKS* *How is C++ XML by Fabio Arciniegas? Is it outdated? How old books should I consider? *What about XML Companion by Neil Bradley? *The Official XMLSPY Handbook by Larry Kim? *Other books? should I read more about Schema? ************************************************************ The actual legacy files has one type which contains information about printers, including information about possible value in the second type of files which are for papers that can be printed on these printers. So there would be one base schema, XML files for the printers containing a mix of Schema and other XML constructs, and XML files for the papers referring to one such printer XML... These possible values in the paper files are combination of a restricted list of tag-values, to many to write out every combination. How easy is it to express this in Schema compared to writing my own XML constructs adopted to the specs i get (How expressive is Schema)? Generally the important thing is generating valid paper documents. Validation is just "nice to have". Is it correct that such generation only comes with DOM level 3, not jet implemented in Xerces-C? Also is it so that validation of DOM is not supported in Xerces-C? Am I left with using the DOM of the Schemas to generate my documents? Any technologies that might be better in this respect? Thanks for your time Olav __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
