Re: [Quickfix-users] Suggested documentation change

[James W. <wi...@wi...>]

 Hello Joerg,

   I'll be happy to do this tonight.  I'll add it under the
link name "AddingNonstandardTags" unless you have a better
suggestion.  Should it go in the FAQ?

best,
Jim

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 04:47, Joerg Thoennes wrote:
> QuickFIX Documentation: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/i=
ndex.html
> QuickFIX FAQ: http://www.quickfixengine.org/wikifix/index.php?QuickFixFAQ
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
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> Hi Jim,
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> >    Just a quick suggestion for a change to the documentation.
> > I'm coding a new FIX connection to a vendor that defines some
> > non-standard fields in its messages.  The QuickFIX documents
> > describe how to define new fields in your C++ codes but they
> > never mention that you also need to edit your XML dictionary
> > to reflect the new fields.  I suppose this should have been
> > obvious, but I pulled my hair out over it for half an hour or
> > so before figuring it out.  It might be worthwhile to add a
> > note to that effect in the section on "User Defined Fields."
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> I guess you finally managed to get this running. So it would be a good id=
ea
> if you could add an article to the WikiFIX on
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> 	http://www.quickfixengine.org/wiki
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> This could be a starting point for the final QF documentation change.
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> Cheers, J=F6rg