How to include CodeSynthesis-XSD into own application?

Question

1.) How can i include the CodeSynthesis-XSD Code-generation into my application, so when i give the application (QT in Visual Studio 10) to someone other he doesnt need to install Code-Synthesis?

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2.) And how can i specify the output-directory of the .cpp and .h files? xsd help doesnt list such an option? i generate like this with the tree:

>xsd cxx-tree "C:\scheme.xsd"

-> solved via a "cd" (Change-Directory) before executing xsd

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3.) i get warnings that i dont know how to solve:

warning F002: attribute 'value' is implicitly of anySimpleType
info: did you forget to specify 'type' attribute?
warning T004: generating parsing functions for 18 global elements
info: use --root-element-* options to specify document root(s)

are there additional parameters that arent listed in xsd help?

Answer 1

1. The runtime library (libxsd) is header-only so there is no need for the end user to install it if you are providing your software in compiled form.

2. Use the --output-dir option

    erik@ubuntu:~$ xsdcxx help cxx-tree 2>&1 | grep -A1 output-dir
      --output-dir <dir>          Write generated files to <dir> instead of current
                                  directory.

3. Regarding "warning T004":

    erik@ubuntu:~$ xsdcxx help cxx-tree 2>&1 | grep -A1 root-element
      --root-element-first        Treat only the first global element as a document
                                  root.
      --root-element-last         Treat only the last global element as a document
                                  root.
      --root-element-all          Treat all global elements as document roots.
      --root-element-none         Don't treat any global elements as document roots.
      --root-element <element>    Treat only <element> as a document root. Repeat
                                  this option to specify more than one root element.

If you don't specify any of these options, --root-element-all is implied but you will see the "warning T004". If --root-element-all is what you want, I suggest adding that option to make the warning go away.

Regarding "warning F002": Sorry, I don't know.

Note: "2>&1" will not be needed in the future when CodeSynthesis XSD will start printing the help text to stdout. http://codesynthesis.com/pipermail/xsd-users/2012-March/003577.html

Answer 2

Regarding the "warning F002", got the similar problem and figured out that it's being raised when declaring attributes without specifying a concrete type.