From: Mark Addison <grommit@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:34:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added docs about the legacy format xml.
X-Git-Tag: v0.06~43
X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4a268a6c214c18c5753762ad59fa1a2430ede61a;p=dbsrgits%2FSQL-Translator.git

Added docs about the legacy format xml.
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diff --git a/lib/SQL/Translator/Parser/XML/SQLFairy.pm b/lib/SQL/Translator/Parser/XML/SQLFairy.pm
index bf30f21..baa2cbb 100644
--- a/lib/SQL/Translator/Parser/XML/SQLFairy.pm
+++ b/lib/SQL/Translator/Parser/XML/SQLFairy.pm
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package SQL::Translator::Parser::XML::SQLFairy;
 
 # -------------------------------------------------------------------
-# $Id: SQLFairy.pm,v 1.6 2004-07-08 19:06:24 grommit Exp $
+# $Id: SQLFairy.pm,v 1.7 2004-07-08 19:34:29 grommit Exp $
 # -------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Copyright (C) 2003 Mark Addison <mark.addison@itn.co.uk>,
 #
@@ -78,6 +78,24 @@ Schema::Field obj).
 
 Doesn't take any extra parser args at the moment.
 
+=head1 LEGACY FORMAT
+
+The previous version of the SQLFairy XML allowed the attributes of the the
+schema objects to be written as either xml attributes or as data elements, in
+any combination. While this allows for lots of flexibility in writing the XML
+the result is a great many possible XML formats, not so good for DTD writing,
+XPathing etc! So we have moved to a fixed version described in
+L<SQL::Translator::Producer::XML::SQLFairy>.
+
+This version of the parser will still parse the old formats and emmit warnings
+when it sees them being used.
+The old format is B<heavily depreciated> and B<will not> be supported in future
+versions.
+
+To convert your old format files simply pass them through the translator;
+
+ sqlt -f XML-SQLFairy -t XML-SQLFairy schema-old.xml > schema-new.xml
+
 =cut
 
 # -------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -85,7 +103,7 @@ Doesn't take any extra parser args at the moment.
 use strict;
 
 use vars qw[ $DEBUG $VERSION @EXPORT_OK ];
-$VERSION = sprintf "%d.%02d", q$Revision: 1.6 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/;
+$VERSION = sprintf "%d.%02d", q$Revision: 1.7 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/;
 $DEBUG   = 0 unless defined $DEBUG;
 
 use Data::Dumper;
diff --git a/lib/SQL/Translator/Producer/XML/SQLFairy.pm b/lib/SQL/Translator/Producer/XML/SQLFairy.pm
index 33157b2..7db90bd 100644
--- a/lib/SQL/Translator/Producer/XML/SQLFairy.pm
+++ b/lib/SQL/Translator/Producer/XML/SQLFairy.pm
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package SQL::Translator::Producer::XML::SQLFairy;
 
 # -------------------------------------------------------------------
-# $Id: SQLFairy.pm,v 1.12 2004-07-08 19:05:26 grommit Exp $
+# $Id: SQLFairy.pm,v 1.13 2004-07-08 19:34:29 grommit Exp $
 # -------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Copyright (C) 2003 Ken Y. Clark <kclark@cpan.org>,
 #                    darren chamberlain <darren@cpan.org>,
@@ -103,11 +103,25 @@ To see a complete example of the XML translate one of your schema :)
 
 Doesn't take any extra arguments.
 
+=head1 LEGACY FORMAT
+
+The previous version of the SQLFairy XML allowed the attributes of the the
+schema objects to be written as either xml attributes or as data elements, in
+any combination. The old producer could produce attribute only or data element
+only versions. While this allowed for lots of flexibility in writing the XML
+the result is a great many possible XML formats, not so good for DTD writing,
+XPathing etc! So we have moved to a fixed version described above.
+
+This version of the producer will now only produce the new style XML.
+To convert your old format files simply pass them through the translator;
+
+ sqlt -f XML-SQLFairy -t XML-SQLFairy schema-old.xml > schema-new.xml
+
 =cut
 
 use strict;
 use vars qw[ $VERSION @EXPORT_OK ];
-$VERSION = sprintf "%d.%02d", q$Revision: 1.12 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/;
+$VERSION = sprintf "%d.%02d", q$Revision: 1.13 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/;
 
 use Exporter;
 use base qw(Exporter);