This example shows how to handle XML vocabularies with multiple root elements using the C++/Parser mapping. The example consists of the following files: protocol.xsd XML Schema which defines a simple bank account protocol with requests such as withdraw and deposit. balance.xml withdraw.xml deposit.xml Sample XML instances for the protocol requests. protocol.hxx C++ types that describe the protocol requests. These are hand-written. protocol.map Type map. It maps XML Schema types defined in protocol.xsd to the C++ types defined in protocol.hxx. protocol-pskel.hxx protocol-pskel.cxx Parser skeletons generated by the XSD compiler from protocol.xsd and protocol.map using the following command line: xsd cxx-parser --type-map=protocol.map protocol.xsd Or if using Expat instead of Xerces-C++ as the underlying XML parser: xsd cxx-parser --xml-parser=expat --type-map=protocol.map protocol.xsd protocol-pimpl.hxx protocol-pimpl.cxx Parser implementations that construct the custom object model from an XML instance using the types from protocol.hxx. These are hand-written implementations of the parser skeletons defined in protocol-pskel.hxx. driver.cxx Driver for the example. It implements a custom document parser that determines which request is being parsed and uses the corresponding parser implementation. The document parser intentionally does not support the deposit request to show how to handle unknown documents. The driver first constructs a parser instance from all the individual parsers found in protocol-pimpl.hxx. In then invokes this parser instance to parse the input file and produce the in-memory object model. Finally, it prints the contents of the object model to STDERR. To compile and link the example manually from the command line we can use the following commands (replace 'c++' with your C++ compiler name): c++ -c protocol-pskel.cxx c++ -c protocol-pimpl.cxx c++ -c driver.cxx c++ -o driver driver.o protocol-pskel.o protocol-pimpl.o -lxerces-c Or if using Expat as the underlying XML parser: c++ -o driver driver.o protocol-pskel.o protocol-pimpl.o -lexpat To run the example on the sample XML request documents execute: ./driver balance.xml ./driver withdraw.xml ./driver deposit.xml