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application to bind the relevant data items and filter out everything else, avoiding the unnecessary processing that would be required to completely unmarshall the entire XML document. The drawback of this approach is the lack of automation in implementing the object model and XPath expressions. Instead, the application developers have to create these artifacts manually, which is time-consuming, potentially error-prone, and hampers application maintenance when XML schemas and XML content models are updated. Another drawback is the lack of XML schema verification, which XML data bindings typically apply automatically during unmarshalling. Schema validity is typically required in secure applications.
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expressions that extract data from XML. This approach has some benefits but also has some drawbacks. First, the approach only needs proximate knowledge (e.g., topology, tag names, etc.) of the XML tree structure, which developers can determine by looking at the XML data. Furthermore, XPath allows the
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Similarly, since objects residing in computer memory are not inherently sequentially stored, and may include links to other objects (including self-referential links), simple XML data binding mappings may not be capable of preserving all the information about an object when it is marshalled to XML.
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Supports XML schema, WSDL, and SOAP; XML schemas are not required to serialize C/C++ data to XML; custom mapping of XML schema types to C/C++ types via a type mapping file and from C/C++ types to compatible XML schema types by source code annotation
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Since XML is a document-oriented format and objects are (usually) not document-oriented, simple XML data binding mappings may ignore some of the structural information embedded in an XML document. Specifically, information such as
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However, sufficiently powerful data binding tools perform graph structure analysis on objects residing in memory to marshall (cyclic) object graph structures in XML by utilizing standard XML reference attributes.
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A mapping description, usually itself an XML document, describes how an existing XML schema maps to a set of classes, and vice versa.
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objects across programs, languages, and platforms. You can dump a time series of structured objects from a datalogger written in
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Earlier versions also supported Java-to-SQL persistence but this has since been forked into a separate project
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An XML data binder accomplishes this by automatically creating a mapping between elements of the
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Based on an existing XML schema, classes that correspond to the schema are generated.
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Supports XML schema (XSD), DTD, XDR, WSDL. Serializes XML to JSON and JSON to XML.
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Based on a set of classes to be serialized, a corresponding XML schema is generated.
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When this process is applied to convert an XML document to an object, it is called
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An alternative approach to automatic data binding relies instead on hand-crafted
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Dormant. Serializes objects to XML without requiring an XML schema definition
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Part of the .NET framework, contains XML data binding classes; includes
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to retrieve the data from a direct representation of the XML itself.
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to access the data in the XML from the object, rather than using the
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on an embedded processor, bring it across the network to process in
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Approaches to data binding can be distinguished as follows:
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tools generate the source code to perform these tasks.
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C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic.Net, Visual Basic 6 (COM)
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Maps classes to XML schemas via bytecode manipulation
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One of XML data binding's strengths is the ability to
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data using a programming language class library (e.g.
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refers to a means of representing information in an
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