Provided with a schema, XSD generates C++ classes that represent the given vocabulary as well as parsing and serialization code. You can then access the data stored in XML using types and functions that semantically correspond to your application domain rather than dealing with elements, attributes, and text in a direct representation of XML such as DOM or SAX.

XSD supports both in-memory and stream-oriented processing models by implementing two C++ mappings: C++/Tree and C++/Parser. The C++/Tree mapping represents the information stored in XML instance documents as a tree-like, in-memory object model. The C++/Parser mapping generates parser skeletons for data types defined in XML Schema. Using these parser skeletons you can build your own in-memory representations or perform immediate processing of XML documents.

Major new features in this release:

C++/Tree

• Generation of documentation in the Doxygen format.
• New XML Schema wildcards mapping which represents the matched content as DOM fragments.
• Support for binary serialization in the XDR format.
• Support for polymorphic binary serialization.
• New Getting Started guide.

C++/Parser

• Parser implementations for all built-in XML Schema types.
• Automatic generation of sample parser implementations and test drivers.
• Support for parsing XML vocabularies with multiple document roots.
• New Getting Started guide.

For a complete list of new features see CodeSynthesis XSD 3.0.0 Release Announcement.

XSD is available on IBM AIX, GNU/Linux, HP-UX, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows. Supported C++ compilers include: GNU g++, HP aCC, IBM XL C++, Intel C++, Sun C++, and MS Visual C++.

More information as well as precompiled binaries for all supported platforms are available from the CodeSynthesis XSD Product Page.