[FleXML-Users] Newbie question...

[Mike A. <mik...@au...>]

Hi - i've managed to do some *really* nice things with this software - but one 
thing keeps me back.
Is there anyway to pass data around within the actions ? 


Background 

I'm trying to marshall (serialize) some C structures into XML.
I've got a program which parses a definition of a C structure (if you've ever 
used RPCGEN or ONCRPC - it works on the same principle (and uses the .x file 
syntax :-)) and generates some code which dumps the XML.

I'm now trying to get my parser to generate the .dtd and .act files for 
reading that file back in...

Take this snippet of XML : 

                <binding_comp_list>
                  <binding_comp_list__abind VALUE="0"/>
                  <binding_comp_list__type VALUE="70"/>
                  <binding_comp_list__data SET='TRUE' VALUE=""/>
                </binding_comp_list>

Ideally - I'd want to 
1) allocate some memory for the binding_comp_list structure 
	in the 'start' for 'binding_comp_list'
2) use that parent to set the data..
3) use that memory in the 'end' 'binding_comp_list' to set something else..

ATM - i've done it using a series of temporary variables - but its really 
messy (because these things can recurse - so I can't just declare once 
temporary binding_comp_list - I need to use a dynamic array..)
It gets even worse when the structure contains structure or an array ( or an 
array of structures!)



For reference - that binding_comp_list is defined as : 

	struct binding_comp_list {
	        long abind;
	        int type;
	        string data; // basically a char*
	};



My current actions look like this (excuse any errors - i've modified this from 
the original for readability!): 

	<start tag='something_using_a_binding_comp_list'>
	<![CDATA[
		Allocate("binding_comp_list", (void *)&tmp_binding_comp_list, 	
			&tmp_binding_comp_list_cnt, sizeof(struct binding_comp_list));
	]]>
	</start>



	<end tag='something_using_a_binding_comp_list'>
	<![CDATA[

		setsomething=tmp_binding_comp_list[tmp_binding_comp_list_cnt-1];

		FreeMemory("binding_comp_list",(void ***)&tmp_binding_comp_list, 		
			&tmp_binding_comp_list_cnt,1);
	
	]]>
	</end>



	<end tag='binding_comp_list__abind'> 
	<![CDATA[
		tmp_binding_comp_list[tmp_binding_comp_list_cnt-1]->abind=atol({VALUE}); 

	]]>
	</end>


	<end tag='binding_comp_list__type'>
	<![CDATA[
		tmp_binding_comp_list[tmp_binding_comp_list_cnt-1]->type=atol({VALUE}); 
	]]>
	</end>

	<end tag='binding_comp_list__data'> 
	<![CDATA[
	   if (isyes({SET})) {
		 tmp_binding_comp_list[tmp_binding_comp_list_cnt-1]->data=strdup({VALUE}); 
	   } else {
                 tmp_binding_comp_list[tmp_binding_comp_list_cnt-1]->data=0;
	   }
           
	]]>
	</end>
	
Any thoughts ?


(Or alternative ways of marshalling the C to XML and back ?!)

-- 
Mike Aubury