[xsde-announcements] XSD/e 2.1.0 released

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi,

We have released XSD/e 2.1.0. The NEWS file entries for this release
are as follows:

  * New delegation-based parser/serializer implementation reuse style in
    addition to virtual inheritance-based. The new style results in a much
    smaller object code size. The new reuse style is used by default and is
    incompatible with the old style. Applications that require backwards
    compatibility should use the --reuse-style-mixin option. The reuse
    support code now can be completely omitted with the --reuse-style-none
    option. A number of examples were converted to support both the new
    and old reuse styles while others were converted to support the new
    style only. For more information on the new reuse style see Section
    5.6 in the Embedded C++/Parser Getting Started Guide and Section 6.6
    in the Embedded C++/Serializer Getting Started Guide.

  * New option, --file-per-type, triggers generation of a separate set
    of C++ files for each type defined in XML Schema. This compilation
    mode is primarily useful when some of your schemas cannot be compiled
    separately or have cyclic dependencies which involve inheritance.
    Other new options that are useful in this compilation mode are
    --type-file-regex, --type-file-regex-trace, and --file-list. See the
    compiler command line manual (man pages) for more information.

  * New option, --options-file, allows additional command line options
    to be provided in files, with one option per line.

  * New option, --reserved-name, allows inserting additional names with
    optional replacements to the list of names that should not be used
    as identifiers. See the compiler command line manual (man pages)
    for details.

  * New options, --location-map, --location-regex, and
    --location-regex-trace, allow re-mapping of schema locations
    specified in the include and import elements without modifying the
    schema files. See the compiler command line manual (man pages) for
    more information.

  * New option, --guard-prefix, allows specifying a prefix that will be
    added to generated header inclusion guards.

  * New option, --file-list, triggers creation of a file with a list of
    generated C++ files. This option is primarily useful in the file-per-
    type compilation mode (--file-per-type) to create a list of generated
    C++ files, for example, as a makefile fragment. Other new options
    that are useful with --file-list are --file-list-prologue,
    --file-list-epilogue, and --file-list-delim. See the compiler command
    line manual (man pages) for more information.

  * In type map files the optional argument type now defaults to the
    return type if the return type ends with * or & (that is, it is
    a pointer or a reference) and 'const return type&' otherwise.

  * Type map files can now include comments. A comment starts with #
    and ends with a new line or end of file. To specify a name that
    contains # enclose it in "".

 C++/Parser

  * New option, --generate-polymorphic, triggers generation of polymorphism-
    aware code. This option should be used on XML vocabularies which use
    xsi:type and/or substitution groups. For more information see Section
    5.7, "Support for Polymorphism" in the Embedded C++/Parser Mapping
    Getting Started Guide we well as the polymorphism and polyroot
    examples in the examples/cxx/parser/ directory.

  * New options, --generate-xml-schema and --extern-xml-schema, trigger
    generation of the mapping for the XML Schema namespace to a separate
    header file and inclusion of that header into other generated header
    files instead of generating the necessary declarations inline,
    respectively. See the the compiler command line manual (man pages)
    for details.

  * Support for parser reuse after an error. For more information refer
    to Section 7.4, "Reusing Parsers after an Error" in the Embedded 
    C++/Parser Mapping Getting Started Guide. To suppress generation
    of the reset code use the --suppress-reset option.

  * New, context-based internal parsing architecture which provides
    better performance, especially for deeply-nested documents. This
    change should not affect user code except for wildcard parsing.
    See the wildcard example for the required changes.

  * The generated sample test driver file name was changed from
    <schema>-driver.cxx to <schema>-pdriver.cxx.

 C++/Serializer

  * The mapping now supports automatic generation of sample serializer
    implementations and a test driver. The --generate-empty-impl option
    triggers generation of a sample implementation with empty function
    bodies which can then be filled with application code. The
    --generate-test-driver option trigger generation of a test driver.
    For more information on this feature see the compiler command line
    manual (man pages). Other relevant new options include:
    --impl-file-suffix, --force-overwrite, --root-element-first,
    --root-element-last, and --root-element.

  * New option, --generate-polymorphic, triggers generation of polymorphism-
    aware code. This option should be used on XML vocabularies which use
    xsi:type and/or substitution groups. For more information see Section
    6.7, "Support for Polymorphism" in the Embedded C++/Serializer Mapping
    Getting Started Guide we well as the polymorphism and polyroot
    examples in the examples/cxx/serializer/ directory.

  * New options, --generate-xml-schema and --extern-xml-schema, trigger
    generation of the mapping for the XML Schema namespace to a separate
    header file and inclusion of that header into other generated header
    files instead of generating the necessary declarations inline,
    respectively. See the the compiler command line manual (man pages)
    for details.

  * Support for serializer reuse after an error. For more information
    refer to Section 8.4, "Reusing Serializers after an Error" in the
    Embedded C++/Serializer Mapping Getting Started Guide. To suppress
    generation of the reset code use the --suppress-reset option.


Precompiled binary distributions are available from the product's
download page:

  http://www.codesynthesis.com/products/xsde/download.xhtml


Source code for this release is available from the project's web page:

  http://www.codesynthesis.com/projects/xsde/


SHA1 checksums for the files:


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589272a7cfe11d9baa07fc2dc70b5005a643f2c8  xsde-2.1.0-i686-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
db464dc846e825c23d706a2bcb8e378cff577802  xsde-2.1.0-sparc-solaris.tar.gz
9cb43fd136d83a926aa1da7d01f0127fe67308e0  xsde-2.1.0-i686-windows.zip


Enjoy,
	Boris