[xsd-users] Makefile rules.

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Bill,

We have considered automatically generating makefile dependencies
for a long time now. For some reason nobody seems to be interested
in this feature. Basically, if you have b.xsd include a.xsd, you
will get something like this for b.xsd:

b.hxx b.cxx: b.xsd a.xsd

It will be trivial to do from the XSD compiler. All we need is to
figure out all the little details, e.g.,

- generating only dependencies as well as together with the C++
  code

- option to suppress inclusion of imported schemas in the 
  dependencies

- option to generate do-nothing rules for schemas (so that one
  can remove a schema and still run make)

- allow to specify header and schema path prefixes (and probably
  regex'es for more advanced transformations)

Let me know if you would be interested in something like this.

Boris