CompSci497
Advanced XML Programming with XmlPL
Lecture Notes
Friday, February 9th, 2007

Contents

1. Interfacing with C/C++
2. Extending XmlPL
3. Programming Project Ideas

• The native language
• __native__ block
• Accessing XmlPL variables from C/C++
• Calling XmlPL functions from C/C++
• XmlPL C++ datatypes
• Providing XML data to XmlPL via C++
• Using XML data produced by XmlPL

• Importing libraries
• Creating libraries
• Compiling libraries
• Wrapping C/C++ libraries for XmlPL
• Base 64 example

• Reuters example
• News Feed Aggregator
• Bittorrent Search Aggregator
• Simplified DocBook
• Generic Object Loader
• Broadcatch System
• Simplified Web Form Generator
• iptables Configuration
• Shell Pipe Graph Builder
• Distributed Execution Using ssh/netcat.
• XML Wrapped C++/Java Classes (round trip UML, object analysis
• C-callgraph to Kivio XML
• Better Configuration File
• XML Format Converter
• Experimental Language
• Web Application