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
