[xsd-users] Any possibility of using MSXML rather than Xerces?

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Chuck,

Mayne, Chuck (ICS-San Diego) <chuck.mayne at hp.com> writes:

> Is there any possibility of using MSXML as the DOM parser rather 
> than Xerces? If it is not possible with the current release, is 
> this feature on the roadmap for future support?

It is not possible and it is currently not on the roadmap. XSD is 
a cross-platform tool that is intended to work consistently across
all major operating systems. Supporting Windows-only MSXML in this
setting does not make much sense.

There is one thing that can be done, however. The XSD-generated 
code (for the C++/Tree mapping) works off Xerces-C++ DOM. So what
you can do is translate MSXML DOM to Xerces-C++ DOM and then feed
that to the XSD-generated code. This will allow you to use MSXML
for parsing. While the Xerces-C++ library is not small (about 1.7Mb
on Windows) one can strip off all the parsing code and only leave
DOM classes. This should reduce the library size dramatically.

Boris