// -*- HTML-Helper -*- $Id: guidelines.txt 45898 2002-08-02 17:44:44Z kitty $

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@page acexml_guides ACEXML Programming Guidelines

<ul>
  <li>A lot of class names under @c $(ACE_ROOT)/ACEXML/common do not
      follow the naming convention suggested in ACE-guidelines.html.
      The reason for that is because those classes were derived from
      the SAX2 API and we would like to keep them as similar as
      possible.
  <li>Character encoding:  The default character encoding for ACEXML
      can be set at compile time.   ACEXML uses UTF-8 encoding in most
      platforms where <code>ACEXML_Char</code> maps to
      <code>char</code> in this case.  When ACE is configured to use
      <CODE>wchar</CODE> and <CODE>UNICODE</CODE>,  ACEXML uses UTF-16
      encoding and <code>ACEXML_Char</code> maps to
      <code>wchar_t</code>.  Notice that ACEXML assume
      <code>sizeof (wchar_t)</code> is of 2-byte long.  For platforms
      using 4-byte <code>wchar_t</code>, ACEXML will not work
      correctly, but it should be trivial to fix.<p>

  <li>Currently, there's only an example showing how to use the parser
      under @c $(ACE_ROOT)/ACEXML/examples/SAXPrint/.

  <li><b>(Not supported yet)</b> To develop a new validator, one must
      create a DLL implementing
      @c ACEXML_Attributes_Def_Builder, @c
      ACEXML_Attribute_Def_Builder, @c ACEXML_Element_Def_Builder,
      @c ACEXML_Validator, and @c ACEXML_DTD_Manager.  The DLL should
      also export a traditional C function called @c
      create_dtd_manager.  The XML parser itself should also be
      modified to support and dynamically link with the new validator.
      See @c $(ACE_ROOT)/ACEXML/parser/debug_validator/ for an example.

</ul>


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