>From: "Carre, Olivier" >Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 1:16 AM
> > Hello Dave, > > I've been playing with generateDS lately, and it is a great tool, i > must first thank you for it. However i now need to generate xml > documents from scratch. I mean i have the schemas, i generate the > bindings and i want to generate an xml file from that. Can it be > done with generateDS without too much overhead ? > Oliver - Good to hear from you. Yes, you can generate XML documents using the code generated by generateDS.py, in fact that is one of the goals or purposes for the project. There is some work involved. You can think of generateDS.py as generating Python class definitions for each of the element types in your schema. (You've already figured that out, I suppose.) So, you need to write some code that creates instances of those generated classes, and hooks them together with the correct nesting. Then call the export() function on the top-level instance/class to generate an instance document. Imagine a schema that defines an outerType element type contain instances of an innerType element type. Then you might do something like the following: inner = innerType() outer = outerType() outer.set_inner(inner) outer.export(sys.stdout, 0) or: outer = outerType(inner=innerType()) outer.set_inner(inner) outer.export(sys.stdout, 0) Of course, in a real world case, it will be quite a bit more complex, but that should give you the idea. Pardon me if I'm telling you things that you've already figured out. Hope this helps. And when you have more questions, let me know. - Dave -- Dave Kuhlman http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ generateds-users mailing list generateds-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/generateds-users
