[gmx-developers] automatic xml to C++ conversion

[Mark Abraham]

Sounds worthwhile to me. One of the advantages of Google's protocol buffers
(which I suggested a while back as a possible .mdp/.tpr replacement) is
that such glue code could be generated. Only needing to write code in "the
language of the schema" sounds like a big drawcard.

Side point to previous discussions - schemas make it possible for tools to
help you write the XML if you're unfortunate enough to have to do so.

Mark


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:38 PM, David van der Spoel
<spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>wrote:

> Thinking a bit more about the XML problem I started googling.
> There are a number of packages that take an XML file or a schema file
> and generate C++ code for reading and writing that schema. This would
> reduce the problem to generating the schema, and making code that actually
> uses the generated code. The nitty gritties will henceforth be done by an
> external program but a serious amount of work remains.
> Is this something worth considering?
> License issues as well as library dependencies may ensue.
>
> Cheers,
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