[gme-users] .xme attribute generation

[Larry Howard]

Even so, having created a GME project directly, you could then dump the xme.
The advantange (or hope, at least) is to isolate yourself from changes in
the xme format and its...well...subtleties.

lph

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Parsons" <parsons at isis.vanderbilt.edu>
To: "gme-users" <gme-users at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:10 AM
Subject: RE: [gme-users] .xme attribute generation


Adi,

If I create an mga file, then won't I get caught up in GME
versioning, the same as I would if I tried to load an mga
file from an earlier version of GME?

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aditya Agrawal
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 10:40 AM
> To: gme-users
> Subject: RE: [gme-users] .xme attribute generation
>
>
> Dear  Jeff,
>
> You wrote:
> > Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't that dumper start
> with an MGA
> > representation? I'm starting with an Abstract Syntax Tree
> created by
> > parsing an IDL file, or set of IDL files. I'm not generating XML
> > directly, but using Xerces to build a DOM tree first. An MGA
> > representation is the end point of my process, rather than the
> > starting point.
> >
> [Adi]
> Why do you want to create the .xme file? Why not create the
> mga directly? You can use the COM API, UDM API or the BON 2
> API to create an mga file directly. Peter please correct me
> if I am wrong about the BON 2 API.
>
> Thanks,
> Adi
>
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: gme-users-bounces at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu
> > > > [mailto:gme-users-bounces at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu] On
> Behalf Of
> > > > Jeff Parsons
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 1:31 AM
> > > > To: gme-users
> > > > Subject: [gme-users] .xme attribute generation
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking at two in particular - 'relid' and
> 'childrelidcntr' -
> > > > and I'm trying to figure out how the Dump methods in GME select
> > > > values for these things when exporting a model to XML. A simple
> > > > rule applies for each:
> > > >
> > > > relid - starts at 0x0 in each scope and increments
> childrelidcntr
> > > > - total number of contained FCOs + Folders
> > > >
> > > > most of the time, but not always :(.
> > > >
> > > > I'm writing a tool that does the reverse of an interpreter,
> > > > generating an *.xme file to be imported into GME, and I want to
> > > > make sure I generate these values correctly. Can anyone
> shed some
> > > > light on this?
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
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