A versatile file generator is GSLgen. An XML file and a schema file can be used to create source code, data, or other files. A specific collection of data is defined in the XML file. The schema file instructs GSLgen on how to handle the information.
GSLgen is built upon two strong ideas. To begin with, we describe data objects using XML. A contemporary, organised, and self-descriptive data description language is XML. Second, we employ a general-purpose schema language (GSL) that enables us to manipulate the XML data and the output in a variety of ways. Most people don’t know that templates (schemas) and object definitions generate source code and other text output.
For those who can abstract an issue, the idea of schema-based code generation is very strong and helpful. With GSLgen, you may do the following things, for example: software interfaces are built.
construct software interfaces. Typically, interface objects are defined as XML, after which code is generated to pack and unpack these objects. You may build an ad-hoc generator that generates code in any language using GSLgen. This is a great way to transfer data between programmes that are written in various languages and use different operating systems.
Create software to access databases. The table we wish to work with only needs to be defined once, and from there we may construct subroutines, SQL scripts, etc. to interact with it. This is a great method for creating applications that can run on any relational database.
Make data objects into HTML or other formats.
data conversion between formats. For instance, converting an XML file from one format to another is extremely typical. This kind of issue is simple for GSLgen to handle.
GSLgen is a portable command-line utility that is simple to incorporate into other tools and scripts. Additionally, GSLgen is available as a module that you may add to your own tools. This is a great approach to create code generators and tools for processing XML.
GSLgen has been made available as Open Source by iMatix Corporation so that you can use its strength in your own applications. There are already prepared installation packages for Windows, Linux, and OS/2. GSLgen can also be created using the given source code.
GSLgen requires XML knowledge. Use GSLgen by downloading and building the source kit package.
You can download and build the package from the source kit to utilise GSLgen. The SFL library must also be downloaded from imatix.com.
Additionally, a Windows executable is accessible.
Build the SFL package, then use the ‘build’ command in the gslgen src directory to generate GSLgen from the source kit.
This produces the libgsl library and gslgen executable for linking with your programmes.