RE: [xsl] Hiding XML to an application (serialization?)

Subject: RE: [xsl] Hiding XML to an application (serialization?)
From: "Angel Gavin" <agavin@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:08:31 +0200
Muchas gracias Aitor.

The problem is that our application is being developed in C/C++ (not Java).
At the end, any solution will be some kind of translator between A and B (it
does not matter whether it is Java, C or XSLT!), but the point is how to do
it in the very best way (I appreciate your experience with serialization).

Saludos,
Angel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aitor San Juan [mailto:asanjuan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 June 2005 16:04
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Hiding XML to an application (serialization?)
>
>
> Hi Angel,
>
> 	Some time ago I used object serialization and came up with the fact
> that having serialized a Java object then it was impossible to
> read it back
> again as a Java object after having simply recompiled the class
> that represents
> tha Java object. You might consider developping another component C to
> act as a "translator" between the needs of A and B.
>
> 	Regards.
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: James Fuller [mailto:jim.fuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Enviado el: martes, 21 de junio de 2005 15:48
> Para: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Asunto: Re: [xsl] Hiding XML to an application (serialization?)
>
>
> Angel Gavin wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have an application that consists of two components, say A and B.
> >Component A is a kind of monitoring and control system. It reads
> application
> >configuration files (in XML; customer requirement), keeps these files
> >updated (e.g., updating values on user request) and call component B with
> >(relevant) configuration parameters. The point is that we want to keep
> >component A as much independent as possible from the XML
> "vocabulary" used
> >in configuration files. In doing so, changes in file definition
> (e.g., new
> >parameters) will not (ideally) affect component A. Component A
> is going to
> >be developed by a third party, and the idea behind this is that we do not
> >want to request a change in A in case we discover we have to
> add, say, a new
> >configuration parameter.
> >
> >
> parameterisation is always a good approach irregardless of data format
> or how it is manipulated.
>
> >Lessons learnt in the past show that changing A is (irremediably) more
> >frequent than expected. I think we can manage configuration
> files quite well
> >by defining a set of XSLT scripts to do the dirty work (we would
> assume this
> >activity), and then component A would only have to know which is
> the script
> >to be executed, its input and input/output XML files. Perhaps
> >this solution is quite twisted, but it is supposed to work, isn't it? Any
> >hint will be much appreciated.
> >
> >
> u do not have to use xslt if u just want to marshall simple
> configuration data into an application, depending upon the programming
> environment there are many tools to 'slurp' up an xml file and
> objectify/arrayfy into internal data representation.
>
> u could use XSLT to generate the final xml configuration files quite
> easily though
>
> >Concerning the second part of the problem (calling B with relevant
> >configuration data), the good news are that we develop this
> component (and
> >its interfaces) but I am afraid that:
> >
> >- B cannot read data from files
> >
> >
> dont think of XML as a file format....it can live in a database, inside
> most programming environments....by orientating your architecture around
> the concept of files you maybe limiting yourself for no reason.
>
> >- My colleagues in charge of the "B thing" do not want to receive data in
> >XML. For sure there is a good reason for that (dunno!), but at
> the end the
> >problem is the same. I feel a bit stupid playing around with
> this, but the
> >point is that we want A to be independent of XML file structure, passing
> >data to B in a "non-XML fashion" (the XSLT trick above will not work).
> >
> >
> like i said there are plenty of ways of marshalling data back and forth
> from xml to whatever
>
> >I've been reading something about serialization. I do not know
> if this will
> >be of help or not (far from being an expert on this; I have
> never used this
> >stuff in my life). Any ideas?
> >
> >
> serialisation is just the marshalling of data from one format to
> another, lets use an example with Objects in the OO sense....lets say your
> program creates a bunch of objects which u want to persist after the
> program stops executing saving some sort of state information...one
> method of doing this is to serialise the object to some out of memory
> format (lets say binary or perhaps xml).
>
> I would start (as with any application) designing the configuration data
> into the simplest possible xml format, then take whatever platform
> specific tool to slurp up xml and turn it into a string|array|object
> (castor is a good java example...xml beans etc).
>
> good luck, Jim Fuller
>
>


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