summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/examples/cxx/tree/custom/comments/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'examples/cxx/tree/custom/comments/README')
-rw-r--r--examples/cxx/tree/custom/comments/README57
1 files changed, 57 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/examples/cxx/tree/custom/comments/README b/examples/cxx/tree/custom/comments/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8fd69d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/cxx/tree/custom/comments/README
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+This example shows how to customize the anyType XML Schema built-in
+type to implement preservation of comments stored in XML documents.
+Because anyType is a base type for every generated type, you can use
+this technique to implement custom functionality that spans the
+entire type system. For more information on the C++/Tree mapping
+customization see the C++/Tree Mapping Customization Guide[2].
+
+[2] http://wiki.codesynthesis.com/Tree/Customization_guide
+
+The example consists of the following files:
+
+people.xsd
+ XML Schema definition for a simple person record vocabulary.
+
+people.xml
+ Sample XML instance document.
+
+xml-schema.hxx
+ C++ types for XML Schema built-in types. This header file is generated
+ by XSD using the --generate-xml-schema option. The --custom-type option
+ is also used to customize the xsd:anyType type.
+
+people.hxx
+people.ixx
+people.cxx
+ C++ types that represent the person record vocabulary, a set of
+ parsing functions that convert XML instance documents to a tree-like
+ in-memory object model, and a set of serialization functions that
+ convert the object model back to XML. These are generated by XSD
+ from people.xsd with the --extern-xml-schema option in order to
+ include xml-schema.hxx.
+
+xml-schema-custom.hxx
+ Header file which defines our own xml_schema::type class. It is
+ included at the end of xml-schema.hxx using the --hxx-epilogue
+ option.
+
+xml-schema-custom.cxx
+ Source file which contains the implementation of our xml_schema:type
+ class.
+
+dom-parse.hxx
+dom-parse.cxx
+ Definition and implementation of the parse() function that
+ parses an XML document to a DOM document while preserving
+ XML comments.
+
+driver.cxx
+ Driver for the example. It first calls the above parse() function
+ to parse the input file to a DOM document. It then parses the DOM
+ document to the object model and performs a number of modifications
+ on this object model. Finally, it serializes the modified object
+ model back to XML, including XML comments.
+
+To run the example on the sample XML instance document simply execute:
+
+$ ./driver people.xml