Historically, an application that uses XML data normally needs a GENERIC XML parser. Apache, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. have developed a few generic XML parsers that can parse any XML documents. XML parsing typically use DOM or SAX methods.
When dealing with XML message that conforms to complicated XML schema of industry strength, like TXLife/XMLife, FIXML, FpML, Acord P&C, etc., XML parsing with generic XML parser becomes non-trivial. Application developers need to write a lot of code to parse through XML message and get/set data. If such XML parsing code is spread in a lot of places, it turns a well written application code into a pile of spaghetti code.
Application also needs to validate the XML string with XML schema standard.
It takes a lot of time to write XML parsing code. It is a lot of efforts to validate an XML schema with a complicated XML schema. It takes a lot of efforts to maintain these code. When new XML schema comes up, your application developers have a tough time updating all the hand-crafted XML parsing and validation code. It is a complete
new development/QA/production life cycle.
AlotSoft , a web service integration solution provider, provides customized XML parser/generator/validator/editor that conform to specific industry XML schema standards.
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