Toward Native XML Processing Using Multi-paradigm Design in C++

XML programming has emerged as a powerful data processing paradigm with its own rules for abstracting, partitioning, programming styles, and idioms. Seasoned XML programmers expect, and their productivity depends on the availability of languages and tools that allow usage of the patterns and practices native to the domain of XML programming. The object-oriented community, however, prefers XML data binding tools over dedicated XML languages because these tools automatically generate a statically-typed, vocabulary-specific object model from a given XML schema. Unfortunately, these tools often sidestep the expectations of seasoned XML programmers because of the difficulties in synthesizing abstractions of XML programming using purely object-oriented principles. We demonstrate how this prevailing gap can be significantly narrowed by a novel application of multi-paradigm programming capabilities of C++. In particular, we demonstrate how generic programming, metaprogramming, generative programming, strategic programming, and operator overloading supported by C++ together enable native and typed XML programming.