Re: [Quickfix-developers] Data Dictionary Sources

[Michael C. S. <hik...@gm...>]

Thanks Jim.  I suspected that was the case or something similar.  I'm sure
at this point that the QF xml dictionaries are much more reliable sources.

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 6:46 AM, James Downs <jc...@co...> wrote:

> 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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