Re: [Quickfix-developers] Data Dictionary Sources

[James D. <jc...@co...>]

Mike,
Dusting the cobwebs off as I try to remember (Oren feel free to correct me
on this), the Data Dictionaries were  generated off the tables MS Word doc
specs provided on the FPL site. I think the process was to "Save As HTML"
each doc then write a parser. This was not ideal but it was all there was.
It was not perfect by the quickfix community helped out and and pointed out
the errors and inconsistencies.

I also think I remember that with the FIX 4.4 creation of component blocks
by FPL in the spec was really annoying.
At the time there was not an XML representation of the protocol.

I hope this helps.

Jim

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Michael C. Starkie <hik...@gm...>
wrote:

> QuickFIX Documentation: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/
>
>
> Hi,
> I'm curious as to how the data dictionaries (e.g., FIX44.xml) files are
> created.
>
> Were they generated by hand, from looking at the FIX specifications, were
> they parsed from the Fix Repository source xml files or both?
>
> I was experimenting with automating similar dictionaries from the formal
> fix repository files but found them to be inconsistent with the
> specifications and error prone.
>
> For Example,  according to the FIX 4.4 spec,  the AllocGroup in
> MsgType="AS" should contain tag 635 (ClearingFeeIndicator), but the
> FixRepository.xml file from the FIX consortium seems to have left that tag
> out in the AllocGrp component of the FIX.4.4 section.
>
> Also, what is the difference between FIX44.xml and FIX44.modified.xml?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
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