On 13 May 2016 at 00:28, Jos van den Oever <j...@vandenoever.info> wrote:
> Hello all, > > Calligra relies on a project called MSOScheme. This project generates Java > and > C++ from an XML description of the Microsoft Office binary file formats. > > The project used to be on Gitorious. Gitorious closed and MSOScheme needs a > new home. > > The code is not moving very fast and currently only Calligra uses it. The > code > only supports MS Office files, but it would be great to support more file > formats. > > Writing XML instead of code for parsing and serializing has great > advantages. > You prevent many memory errors and can work on optimization without > understanding all the separate file formats. This approach helped Calligra > to > have very fast MS Office parsers. At the time this was needed for running > well > on Nokia Maemo and Meego phones. > > As an example of the flexibility, there are 3 types of C++ generated. One > that > can parse with zero allocations, one that is a bit more easy to use but > does > use allocations and a third one that has full introspection on the parsed > data > and can output it as an XML tree for easy debugging or conversion with XML > tools. > > https://gitorious.org/msoscheme/msoscheme.git/ > > I believe the project could be useful for more than just Calligra. I'm > writing > a small demo to create a parser for tar files as a simple tutorial. > > +10 We need more general-purpose projects like that. And IMHO if there's a way to make (generate) a C++-only version of the tool then even better. Larger audience. Best regards, > Jos van den Oever > > > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
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