Hi Olumide, I'm no C++ programmer, but if it's as straightforward as plugging values into boilerplate, this is simply done with XSLT. What's not so simple is to avoid the temptation to do more. Entire domain-specific languages have been implemented with XSLT used as a "compiler". Cheers, Wendell On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Olumide <videohead@mail.com> wrote:

Hello -

Given an XML "config" file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Device manufacturer="ACME" model="Gizmo"> <Frequencies>3200 6400 12800</Frequencies> <ImageSupport value='false'/> <Memory size="128"/> </Device>

defining the attributes of an object, what would be the best way to create C++ header and implementation files

/* C++ Header File */ namespace ACME { class Gizmo { public: typedef std::vector<unsigned> Frequency; Frequency initializeFrequency(); // ideally, private static const Frequency m_frequency;

static const bool m_supportsImages = false; static const unsigned m_deviceMemory = 128;

static const std::string name(); }; }

/* C++ implementation file */ namespace ACME { const Gizmo::m_frequency = Gizmo::initializeFrequency();

Frequency Gizmo::initializeFrequency() { Frequency freq;

freq.push_back( 3200 ); freq.push_back( 6400 ); freq.push_back( 12800 );

return freq; }

const std::string Gizmo::name() { return "ACME::Gizmo"; } }

I've googled and found some utilities (mostly) commercial but I'm not sure which is the best or if this task can be easily accomplished with XSLT.

Regards,

- Olumide

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