XSD/Schema compilation checklist

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This page provides a checklist-like run through the most commonly used XSD options. For more details on each option as well as for the complete list of options refer to the XSD command line interface documentation (man pages).

Contents 1 Common Options 2 C++/Tree Mapping Options 3 C++/Parser Mapping Options

Common Options

The following options are available for all mappings:

• You can map any XML Schema namespace (including the no-namespace case and built-in XML Schema namespace) to a custom C++ namespace with the --namespace-map option, for example, --namespace-map http://www.example.com/xmlns/my=ExampleInc::My. To place the generated code for a schema without a target namespace into a C++ namespace, use the empty string as XML Schema namespace: --namespace-map =My. To map a set of namespaces at once the --namespace-regex option is available.

• To place the generated code into a specific directory, use the --output-dir options, for example, --output-dir src.

• You can select the character type that should be used in the generated code with the --char-type option. Available choices are char (default), and wchar_t.

• If you have several schema files and some of them are not self-sufficient (that is, you get XML Schema errors when trying to compile them with XSD) or have cyclic dependecies that involve inheritance (that is, you get C++ errors when compiling the generated code with the message saying that the base type is undefined) then you will need to use the file-per-type compilation mode which is turned on with the --file-per-type option. For more information about the file-per-type mode see this blog post.

C++/Tree Mapping Options

The following options are specific to the C++/Tree mapping:

• If you are planning to serialize the object model back to XML, then use the --generate-serialization option. See Chapter 6, "Serialization" in the C++/Tree Mapping Getting Started Guide for details.

• If your XML vocabulary uses XML Schema polymorphism (xsi:type or substitution groups), then you will need to compile your schemas with the --generate-polymorphic option. See Section 2.11, "Mapping for xsi:type and Substitution Groups" in the C++/Tree Mapping User Manual for details.

• If your XML vocabulary uses XML Schema wildcards (xsd:any and xsd:anyAttribute) then you may want to use the --generate-wildcard option. See Section 2.12, "Mapping for any and anyAttribute" in the C++/Tree Mapping User Manual for details.

• If you would like to change the identifier naming convention used in the generate code, then you can use the --type-naming and --function-naming options. See the Naming Convention section in the XSD command line interface documentation (man pages).

• If you are using Visual Studio 2005 and rely on IntelliSense, then you may want to compile your schemas with the --generate-intellisense option.

C++/Parser Mapping Options

The following options are specific to the C++/Parser mapping: