Reverse engineering from xml file

MrShadow · **Joined:** Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:34 pm **Posts:** 8

Is it possible to reverse xml files ?

I know hibernate allows reversion from a database schema to POJO (with HibernateTools and Eclipse plugin for ewample).
Can we do the same thing from xml files ?

tx for help.
Alex.

max · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:21 pm

what kind of xml files ?

MrShadow · **Joined:** Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:34 pm **Posts:** 8

In fact any xml file containing data.
For example :

Code:

<profil uri="user2@users.org">
   <base>
      <login>user2</login>
      <pseudo>u2</pseudo>
      <password>user2pwd</password>
      <inscrdate>2005-9-30</inscrdate>
      <jid>user2@users.org</jid>
      <mail>user2@users.org</mail>
   </base>
   <competence id="java">
                <level>0</level>
   </competence>
        <competence id="c++">
                <level>3</level>
   </competence>
</profil>

Do I have to write the mapping file manually, or is there any way to reverse this example xml data file (defining profiles) automatically (that's to say generate the xml mapping file and/or the POJO code)

I'm dealing with big xml data files (all with the same DTD). I take them as string and have to put them into a database (the schema is not defined yet)
So the easiest way would be to generate the xml mapping files from the xml data files and adapt them after that.

max · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:00 pm

no - no reverse engineering from xml files....pretty hard and interesting computational problem if there are no DTD or similar for it yet btw. ;)

MrShadow · **Joined:** Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:34 pm **Posts:** 8

so that's not possible even if we have the DTD... :(

and yes I agree, this must hard (so interesting !) to do.
Do u know if this feature will be added in future ? Some contributors are working on it ?

tx for help !
Alex.

max · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:10 am

nope - noone i know of.