XMLBooster's C++ Code generator

The C++ code generator included in XMLBooster aims at providing a more convenient interface than the bare bone C code generator, at a minor cost in terms of performance:

• Generates a parser (to convert an XML input to a valid C++ data structure) as well as an unparser (to convert the C++ data structure back to an XML stream).
• Generates standard C++ code, that can be compiled on virtually any platform, including NT, Linux, Unix, etc.
• Generates a convenient and strongly typed interface to access the information parsed by XMLBooster, using templates whenever possible.
• Uses user-defined classes for collections and strings. By default, XMLBooster uses classes provided by the STL (Standard Template Library).
• Generates destructors for all nodes of a parsed XML message, thereby avoiding memory leaks.
• Performs error recovery without using C++'s exception mechanism.
• Inheritance in terms of elements is mapped onto equivalent inheritance relationships for the corresponding generated classes.
• All instances are created through calls to a user-redefinable factory, so that subclassing can be used to add behaviour to the objects that are created as part of the parse tree.
• Fully supports regular expressions: a data element can be attached to a regular expression, which will be used to validate the data fetched from the incoming XML message at parse time.