[cwn] Attn: Development Editor, Latest Caml Weekly News

[Alan Schmitt]

Hello,

Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, for the week of February 10 to  
17, 2009.

1) XML data binder for Ocaml
2) findlib-1.2.4 (for ocaml-3.11)

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1) XML data binder for Ocaml
Archive: <http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/c26df9a185e9afe8# 
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** O'Leary, John W asked and Sylvain Le Gall answered:

 > Hi all,

 > I'm looking for a tool that will take an XML data schema (.xsd) and
 > generate data bindings in Ocaml. In other words, I am seeking an  
Ocaml
 > equivalent to XSD (for C and C++) and JAXB (for Java).

 > Googling didn't immediately turn up anything meeting the above
 > description. I'd very much appreciate any pointers.

I think you can try taking a look at two project:
<http://www.galaxquery.org/>
<http://www.cduce.org/ocaml>

I think they implement something close to what you want (I mean "close",
not "what you want" unfortunately). At least there is some code in it,
that deal with xsd.
			
** Richard Jones also replied:

XSD as in the crazy-complicated quasi-standard used in SOAP, WSDL etc?
I'm not sure you'll find any implementations in OCaml - it's hard
enough to implement when you have a large team of people available to
you.

I did a very very partial implementation using CDuce as part of my
SOAP client code for the Google AdWords API.  It's not directly
usable, but maybe you can have a look at it for inspiration anyway:

   <http://merjis.com/developers/oc-soap>
			
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2) findlib-1.2.4 (for ocaml-3.11)
Archive: <http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/8273ad37caf6aa97# 
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** Gerd Stolpmann announced:

I've just uploaded findlib-1.2.4. This is a bugfix release:

      * For ocaml-3.11 some camlp4 libs no longer include dynlink.
        Findlib has a fixed META definition.
      * Bigarray needs unix: This has been fixed in the META file, too.
      * Attempt to fix some "space path" issues for Win32. It is
        untested, however.

Get findlib from its homepage
(<http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/findlib.html>). The GODI package
is already updated.
			
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