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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: XML generator
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Aidan Skinner <aidan@velvet.net> writes:

> I have a generic package that I'm using which takes in a type, an
> array of strings to represent the elements/propertys, and
> getproperty and setproperty methods for that type which the set
> takes two strings (the name of the property and the value to set it
> too) and the get function takes one string (the name of the
> property) and returns a string.
> 
> Read and Write functions are provided that utilise the passed in
> methods, using the SAX parser in XML/Ada. It's not pretty, it's not
> big and it's not clever, but it's easier than writing custom parsing
> procedures every time. All the programmer has to do is the switch
> statements in the methods to translate from strings to the appropriate
> type and back again. Works nicely for the one-record-per-file
> structure I tend to have.

You could write an ASIS tool to write those switch statement procedures.

Although, if you go the ASIS route, it might make sense to write the
final package directly, rather than using a string-based generic.

-- 
-- Stephe