[xsd-announcements] XSD 3.1.0.b1 released

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi,

We have released XSD 3.1.0.b1 which is the first and most likely the
final beta for the upcoming 3.1.0 release. The NEWS file entries so
far are as follows:

  * 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 type
    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.

  * Support for the upcoming Xerces-C++ 3.0.0 release.

 C++/Tree

  * New option, --generate-intellisense, triggers generation of workarounds
    for IntelliSense bugs in Visual Studio 2005 (8.0). When this option is
    used, the resulting code is slightly more verbose. IntelliSense in
    Visual Studio 2008 (9.0) does not require these workarounds. Support
    for IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2003 (7.1) is improved with this
    option but is still incomplete.

  * New options, --type-naming and --function-naming, allow one to
    specify the type and function naming conventions that should be
    used in the generated code. Supported values for --type-naming
    are: knr (K&R), ucc (upper-camel-case), and java. Supported
    values for --function-naming are: knr (K&R), lcc (lower-camel-
    case), and java. For more information see the NAMING CONVENTION
    section in the compiler command line manual (man pages).

  * New options, --type-regex, --accessor-regex, --modifier-regex,
    --parser-regex, --serializer-regex, and --enumerator-regex,
    allow one to specify transformations for type, accessor function,
    modifier function, parsing function, serialization function, and
    enumerator names in order to produce the generated code using a
    custom naming convention. For more information see the NAMING
    CONVENTION section in the compiler command line manual (man pages).

  * Generated list classes now provide a complete set of constructors
    and conform to the standard C++ sequence interface.

  * String-based types now provide two extra constructors that take
    C string and std::string as their arguments. This allows direct
    initialization of string-based types from string literals.

  * New implementations of the XML Schema date/time types (date, dateTime,
    duration, gDay, gMonth, gMonthDay, gYear, gYearMonth, and time) that
    represent the information in the numerical form.

  * Support for customization of anyType. Because anyType is a base type
    for every generated type, customizing it allows you to implement
    custom functionality that spans the entire type system. See the
    comments example in the examples/cxx/tree/custom/ directory.

  * New option, --omit-default-attributes, triggers generation of extra
    checks that exclude attributes with default and fixed values from the
    serialized XML documents.

  * The parsing functions that used to read from DOMInputSource were
    changed to use InputSource to ease support for of Xerces-C++ 3
    and 2 series in the same code base.

 C++/Parser

  * The date/time types (date, dateTime, gDay, gMonth, gMonthDay, gYear,
    gYearMonth, and time) now represent time zone in the numerical form.


Precompiled binary distributions for GNU/Linux x86, Mac OS X x86, and
Windows are available from the product's download page:

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


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

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


SHA1 checksums for the files:

25b8230a8c415ba248c6ec5c986d2af426e73962  xsd-3.1.0.b1.tar.bz2
ce4a3cd7598d0f78ee4ccbc41d59b5162927e77b  xsd-3.1.0.b1-i686-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
7e730152a2512fe11490721669fb4f75b606f527  xsd-3.1.0.b1-i686-macosx.tar.bz2
c95424631c07f1a6e851579c9939cec123b0d068  xsd-3.1.0.b1-i686-windows.zip


Have fun,
Boris
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