Add generation of detach functions

New option: --generate-detach. Also added detach/attach functionality
to var_seq, non-STL str_seq, and string_base.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ Version 3.1.0
     Started Guide as well as examples in the examples/cxx/hybrid/binary/
     directory.
 
+  * New option, --generate-detach, triggers generation of detach functions
+    for elements and attributes of variable-length types. These functions,
+    for example, allow you to move sub-trees in the object model either 
+    within the same tree or between different trees. The sequence interfaces
+    for variable-length types now also provide the detach() function.
+
   * The generated parser and serializer implementations are now capable
     of parsing/serializing recursive types. The XSD/e compiler detects
     recursive types and generates stack-based implementations with