[xsd-users] feature request: generating files such as people-custom.cxx

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Erik,

Erik Sjölund <erik.sjolund at gmail.com> writes:

> It would be nice if Codesynthesis XSD would be able to generate out
> files such as people-custom-fwd.hxx, people-custom.cxx, people-custom.hxx
> seen in the directory
> 
> examples/cxx/tree/custom/taxonomy
> 
> Of course XSD would then just create customized classes doing nothing.
> The programmer then manually edits these generated files and enhance
> them with more functionality.
> 
> I think adding this functionality to Codesynthesis XSD would save time
> to the programmer when writing his/her customized classes.

Thanks for the suggestion. While I agree such a feature could be useful,
it is not trivial to implement (generating a separate set of files with
classes and empty functions, all the command line options, documentation,
tests, etc, etc.). At the same time I don't think a lot of people will
benefit from this feature since, in my experience, customizing a large
number of types like this is quite rare. Most people will customize a few
types or if they need to apply the same customization to a large number
of types, they will use the template wrapper approach.

So while I've added this feature to the TODO list, its priority will be
quite low.

Boris