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

["Angel Gavin" <agavin@xxxxxx>]

> 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
>

James,

Thanks a lot for your feedback. It has many ideas to think about.

Concerning the use of XML tools, I have a general question. One of the
problems I have in my company to convince people to (wisely!) use XML is the
absence? of tools (XML parsing, XSLT transformations, etc etc etc) for
applications with given certification requirements. Nevertheless, the use of
XML for configuration files is more and more requested (customer
requirement), so they have no choice!

In particular, we develop applications (like the one mentioned in my
previous email) for the aerospace sector that should (SHALL!) have DO-178b
certification (normally, up to B level). Applications are usually developed
in C/C++. I do not want to bother people with questions that may be beyond
the scope of this list (and then I will not open a new thread for this), but
the problem still has to do with XSLT.

Does anyone know something about tools for XML
processing/marshalling/transforming/... (in particular, XSLT!!!) for the
development of software with certification requirements? I was googling the
Internet a few months ago but did not find anything. Perhaps the question is
whether is there a market for this, considering the high quality of the
existing (free) software for XML.

Although I have deviated this reply a little bit from the initial
question/response (we are thinking about your hints in detail), I think the
subject is interesting too.  Should you prefer to keep this post out of this
list, I would appreciate pointers to general XML lists to address this
question.

Thanks a lot again for your help.
Angel


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