Re: [Quickfix-developers] Data Dictionary Sources

[Oren M. <or...@qu...>]

That was how they originally were done, but we have been generating the off the repository for some time now.

> On Jan 9, 2016, at 5:46 AM, James Downs <jc...@co...> wrote:
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> QuickFIX Documentation: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/
> 
> 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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