Re: [Demexp-dev] CDuce binding in Makefile.

[Serge Leblanc]

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 16:15, David MENTRE wrote: 
> Hello Serge,
>
> Serge Leblanc <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I will integrate in the makefile the possibility of binding CDuce code.
> > What will allow a easy informations XML handling.
>
> Sorry, but I don't know what CDuce is. After looking at its web page
> (http://www.cduce.org/), it appears that it allows (amongst other
> things) to manipulate XML documents in a type safe way.

Yes CDuce allows an efficiency input/output/transformation XML documents.

> However, I'm wondering if such a program is really necessary for
> demexp. For the XML import and export, I just need small routines to
> read & write xml files and transform them into ocaml data structure,
> with a sax-like API in order to avoid loading all the file in memory.

> For reading, it seems that lablgtk2 as already a minimal XML support:
> http://oandrieu.nerim.net/ocaml/lablgtk/doc/Xml_lexer.html
>
> For writing, I can do it easily with printf-like functions.
>
> CDuce seems to me a huge program (and language!) not suited to the
> needed task. What do you think of it Serge?


CDuce was precisely built to handle XML import and export with safety and efficiency since OCaml, look at : http://www.cduce.org/manual_interfacewithocaml.html

"Use CDuce as an XML layer (input/output/transformation) for OCaml projects;"

The code which CDuce produces can be directly linked with OCaml. 

> BTW, if CDuce has the possibility to *validate* an XML DTD, it could be
> interesting for us, demexp developers.

CDuce offers better than the validation : http://www.cduce.org/manual_schema.html#validation

> Yours,
> david

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