Re: [Quickfix-developers] Incorrect group information in FIX4*.xml files?
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Re: [Quickfix-developers] Incorrect group information in FIX4*.xml files?
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From: <sb...@ab...> - 2002-08-23 22:44:55
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From a visual inspection it looks much better. That was fast! :) How does your code generator handle repeating groups (I'm assuming you generate some message-related code from these XML files)? Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: OM...@th... Date: Friday, August 23, 2002 4:44 pm Subject: Re: [Quickfix-developers] Incorrect group information in FIX4*.xml files? > > I examined the parser and the FIX40 specs and made a one line > change that I > believe fixes both problems (they were related). Take a look at > this file > and let me know how it looks. > > (See attached file: FIX40.xml) > > --oren > > > |---------+-----------------------------------------------> > | | OM...@th... | > | | Sent by: | > | | qui...@li...ur| > | | ceforge.net | > | | | > | | | > | | 08/23/2002 03:35 PM | > | | | > |---------+-----------------------------------------------> > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------| > | > | > | To: sb...@ab... > | > | cc: qui...@li..., > | > | qui...@li... > | > | Subject: Re: [Quickfix-developers] Incorrect group > information in FIX4*.xml files? | > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------| > > > > > > Oh, another thing, > > I just realized that for FIX 4.3 they completely changed the Fiximate > format. The old ones are xml while the new one is html. They look > absolutely nothing alike. 4.3 is also the only one you can > download as a > ZIP (as opposed to hunting and pecking for individual files). > This being > the case I'm most inclined to write a Fiximate parser for 4.3, and > justimprove the old parser for the earlier versions. Since the > older versions > aren't going to change, it probably isn't worth it writing a whole new > parser that can't be used for future versions. Thoughts? > > --oren > > > > |---------+-----------------------------------------------> > | | <sb...@ab...> | > | | Sent by: | > | | qui...@li...ur| > | | ceforge.net | > | | | > | | | > | | 08/23/2002 02:28 PM | > | | | > |---------+-----------------------------------------------> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------| > > | > | > | To: OM...@th... > | > | cc: <qui...@li...> > | > | Subject: Re: [Quickfix-developers] Incorrect group > informationin FIX4*.xml files? | > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------| > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > 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 > messagedefinitions 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 > ClOrdIDalthough there are several more fields after that one. This > may be a > related problem to the previous one (?). > > Steve > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old > cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! > https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 > _______________________________________________ > Quickfix-developers mailing list > Qui...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/quickfix-developers > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old > cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! > https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 > _______________________________________________ > Quickfix-developers mailing list > Qui...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/quickfix-developers > > > > |
