XSD/e

XSD/e is an open-source, dependency-free XML Schema to C++ compiler for mobile, embedded, and light-weight applications. It provides XML parsing, serialization, XML Schema validation, and XML data binding while maintaining a small footprint and portability.

For further information, including licensing conditions, documentation, and binary packages, refer to the XSD/e project page.

NOTE: the steps described below are more appropriate for the development of XSD/e as opposed to consumption. In case you just want to use XSD/e:

• If you want to use a binary package for the XSD/e compiler, see the XSD/e download page. With this option, you can also use a binary package for the XSD/e runtime library (libxsde) or you can build it from source using make/nmake.

• If you want to build XSD/e from source and use the result from a project that uses a build system other than build2, then see Installing XSD/e with build2 for the step-by-step instructions.

• If you want to use XSD/e from a project that uses build2 as the build system, then see the accompanying PACKAGE-README.md file.

The development setup for XSD/e uses two build configurations, for example:

git clone .../xsde.git
cd xsde

bdep init --empty

bdep config create @host ../xsde-host --type host cc config.cxx=g++
bdep config create @target ../xsde-target cc config.cxx=g++

bdep init @host -d xsde
bdep init @target -d libxsde -d xsde-tests -d xsde-examples

To generate the documentation in the .ps and .pdf formats, the html2ps and ps2pdf14 programs are required (the latter is from ghostscript). A warning is issued in the development mode if these programs are not available.

To test installation of the XSD/e compiler, create a separate target configuration (it will automatically resolve any build-time dependencies from host):

bdep config create @install ../xsde-install --type target cc config.cxx=g++ \
  config.install.root=/tmp/install

bdep init @install -d xsde

b install: ../xsde-install/xsde/

The checked out libxsde/xsde/cxx/version.hxx will be overwritten during the in-source build but these changes must be ignored. To do this automatically, run:

git update-index --assume-unchanged libxsde/xsde/cxx/version.hxx