I need some suggestions from monks. I will soon work on a project, which is XML related, and have to deal with lots of different XML Schemas. I know we have SAX, DOM and all those kind of things, and I know we have lots of modules from active Perl, and also CPAN that deals with XML. However all of those have a common problem, that the development cycle is too long, and I am looking at something a layer above.

I will do the whole project in an OO style. What I am looking at now, is a (or a set of) module that support such a methodology: it takes the XML Schemas, and generate the Perl OO classes, which can contain the layered-image of the XML data, and also generates all the accessors, at least the restriction checking and all the setters/getters (In Perl, most people like to combine the setter and getter, if you use it without parms, it is a getter, otherwise it is a setter). Then SAX or DOM will be used upon the XML files as parser, and I can take the parsed data and store the parsed data in those generated classes, and access them thru those generated methods (well, I expect that I have to manually add some other methods on top, but that is fine).

This will, I believe, largely reduce the development effort.

I don’t think there is any existing Perl module does this, but I am looking at fellow monks to share your suggestions and ideas.

In reply to automated conversion from XML Schema to Perl OO by pg

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