[xsd-users] Problem with assymmetry in serialization/deserialization

[Bielik, Robert]

Hi all,

I'm trying to use template functions to make for transparent serialization/deserialization, however, without -generate-element-map I can only make deserialization work through:

template<typename ObjectType>
std::auto_ptr<ObjectType> getTypedObject(DOMDocument* doc)
{
    std::auto_ptr<ObjectType> ret;
    try
    {
        ret.reset(new ObjectType(*doc->getDocumentElement()));
    }
    catch (std::exception&)
    {
        // Catch all
    }
    return ret;
}

which works nicely. However serializing is a whole other matter. To serialize the object CObjectXml I need to:

schema_namespace::CObjectXml value(...);
::xml_schema::dom::auto_ptr< ::xercesc::DOMDocument > domdoc = schema_namespaces::CObjectXml_(value, contentMap);

As you can see, there is no way to templatize this since the serialization relies on a static function named ObjectType_ (!)

And with -generate-element-map I have no way to create a DOMDocument directly, since the serialization operators work on a DOMElement. Besides, it seems that
whereas the ObjectType_ function correctly generated the top level DOMElement with name == "ObjectType", the latter serialization operators only serialize the
CONTENT of ObjectType (i.e. no top element with name == "ObjectType").

I could really use some suggestions as how to accomplish what I want since the codebase is getting sickeningly large due to this...

TIA
/Rob