slice2xml transformer

[mwilson]

Hello,

I have written slice2xml, a program that takes a Slice file as input and outputs an XML representation of it on the standard output. The source and a README can be downloaded from:

Downloads - slice2xml - Project Hosting on Google Code

The program is written against Ice-3.3.1 and mcpp-2.7.2 (should be part of your Ice installation). I wrote it on Solaris, it should compile fine in whatever *nix environment you work in. If anyone is interested, I can probably whip up a Visual Standard project for it (if any Windows fans decide to make a project for slice2xml, that would be great).

I hope to use slice2xml to help generate various pieces of code, such as Oracle code to persist Ice objects (my boss doesn't want us to use Freeze).

I hope people find slice2xml useful...

Sincerely,
Mark Wilson

[mwilson]

Hello,

I have attached a patch for slice2xml that allows the program to be compiled against Ice 3.4.0 (is backward compatible for older versions of Ice). On *nix systems, you can apply the patch with the following command:

cat main.cc.patch | patch  main.cc

This will overwrite the main.cc in the directory. The -b option will save the original main program as main.cc.orig.

I would be interested to know if anyone is using slice2xml and what they are using it for....

[matthew]

Thanks for the contribution Mark!