Re: [Quickfix-developers] Incorrect group information in FIX4*.xml files?

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From: OM...@th...
> Yeah, it looks like this is a parser error.  We create these XML 
> specs off of the original specs, and the way messages and fields are 
> represented is very inconsistent all throughout.

Hi Oren,

Yes, I understand the challenges in parsing those documents. I don't
know why the FIX Technical Committee doesn't publish the raw FIX message
definitions as XML files. It would make many software developers' lives
much easier.

Did you consider parsing the "Fiximate" HTML pages instead? They may be
more consistent in structure and they are available for 4.0 through 4.3.

I also noticed that some of the message definitions in the XML files do 
not have all the fields described in the specification. In particular, 
the ListStatus message (in the FIX4.0 XML file) seems to stop at ClOrdID
although there are several more fields after that one. This may be a
related problem to the previous one (?).

Steve