[FleXML-Users] FleXML bug report and questions

[Devin K. <de...@SD...>]

First a minor bug report. when flexml generates the header file from a
DTD it doesn't put a full #ifndef gard in the header. So you get:
#ifndef _FLEXML_blah_H
... stuff ...
#endif

where as it needs a #define right after the #ifndef.  I'd submit a
patch but it's probably easier to just do by hand. 

Are the mailing lists still active? 

Also I've had some problems with the parser that flexml generates, all
of which I managed to fix by tweaking the skel file and a sed run over
the generated lex file.  Basically the problem is that the XML that I
want to parse is being read off a network connection and doesn't contain
the <!DOCTYPE ...> header.  The fix I came up with was to not use the
ROOT_<tag> states and just match the begining of the tags in the PROLOG
state instead.  Is this reasonable?  Would this a feature worth putting
into FleXML? I would be willing to do the coding if I can find the time.

The final question is on user defined skeleton files.  From my
perspective it would be very nice if I could specify a skeleton file
*in additon to* the default one.  Basically insert it between %{ and %}
in the lex file.  Also wrap some of the macros like FAIL in #ifndef's so
that the user can override them.  Any interest/thoughts?

thanks,
-- 
Devin Kowatch
de...@sd...