Semi OT: Writing an IDL to XML converter...standard?

[Darrin Smith]

Well I wrote an IDL to XML converter, but I made it do what I thought it should since I didn't have a standard to follow.

For example, if I had something like this:

struct CountType
{
long           totalCount;
char           countDate;
};
 

I'd convert it to this:

<CountType type="struct">
    <totalCount type="long"/>
    <countDate type="char"/>
</CountType>
 
or
 
<CountType>
    <elementType type="struct"/>
    <totalCount type="long"/>
    <countDate type="char"/>
</CountType>

Digging around after the fact I was able to find this: https://wiki.objectweb.org/celtix/attach?page=CORBABindingDevPlan%2Fmars-2005-03-02.pdf

Following that it would look like this:

<corba:typeMapping targetNamespace="http://www.mycorp.com/corba/typemap/">
  <corba:struct name="CountType" repositoryID="IDL:CountType:0.0">
      <corba:member name="totalCount" idltype="corba:long"/>
      <corba:member name="countDate" idltype="corba:char"/>
  </corba:struct>
 </corba:typeMapping>

Although it looks OK, when the schema is generated, it doesn't work out very well (could hand code it though I guess).

My question is, does anyone know if there is a "standard" way to convert IDL to XML?
[ January 04, 2007: Message edited by: Darrin Smith ]