This topic describes functions which are available to XDS/XOM programmers to help simplify and speed up the development of XDS applications. The convenience functions target two main areas, as follows:
· Filling, comparing, and extracting objects
· Converting objects to and from strings
The following six convenience functions are provided:
· dsX_extract_attr_values( )
· omX_fill( )
· omX_fill_oid( )
· omX_extract( )
· omX_string_to_object( )
· omX_object_to_string( )
Refer to the *(3xds) and *(3xom) reference pages for a detailed description of these functions.
To demonstrate the power of the convenience functions, the acl.c sample program from Sample Application Programs is presented again here, after modification to make use of these functions. The modified sample program is called acl2.c.