Corba data -> XML

Lisa Rein lisarein at finetuning.com
Tue Sep 22 18:49:11 BST 1998


Hi Thillai:

You should look at the WebBroker work that John Tigue has done at:

http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-webbroker/

Where he uses DTDs to express both DCOM and CORBA objects.

Cheers,

lisa rein
http://www.finetuning.com

Thillai wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know only little bit about XML.  I like to know whether a CORBA operation
> can be expressed in XML document type definition?
> 
> For example if the IDL has something like
> 
> interface z
> {
>         typedef sequence<String, 5>  t1;
> 
>         void x(in int p1,  in t1 p2);
> }
> 
> and I want to store the parameters for the operation in a file.
> 
> I like to have a XML data file like
> <interface>
> z
> <operation>
> x
> <inparameter>
> <param>
> p1
> <value>10</value>
> </param>
> <param>
> p2
> <value><nelems>5</nelems><0>abc</0><1>efg</1><2>hij</2><3>
> klm</3><4>nop</4></value>
> </param>
> </inparameter>
> </operation>
> </interface>
> 
> If there is no maximum limit for the type t1 then no. of elements in the
> sequence might vary.
> 
> For this file is it possible to write DTD.  (I will read about DTD and find.
> Before that any expert comment will be helpful)
> 
> If it is possible then is it possible to write XSL for getting values from the
> user.  (no. of elements in the sequence might vary at runtime).
> 
> Thillai
> AT&T
> Middletown, NJ
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