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Summary

Modernizes the XSC implementation for C++17 without changing the C++ code that XSC generates.

• Modernizes XSC and the retained CCF support code with C++17 language and standard-library facilities.
• Removes legacy Xerces 2 compatibility code and replaces Boost filesystem, regex, system, and program-options use with standard-library facilities and ACE_Get_Opt.
• Simplifies the retained CCF layout, removes unused CCF code, and modernizes its indentation and introspection helpers.
• Adds a 120-column formatting policy for tracked C/C++ sources.
• Extends CI to use Ubuntu 24.04 and its default compiler, cancels superseded runs, and builds XSC, enabled examples, generated schema tests, DanceX11 schemas, and validation-rejection tests.
• Removes the now-unused Boost CI dependency.

Deliberate scope

This changes XSC itself and its build/test infrastructure only. Generated C++ output is not intentionally modernized by this pull request.

Validation

• Regenerated and built XSC with make -j8.
• Regenerated and built all enabled examples and schema tests.
• Ran Tests/Validation/run_test.pl.
• Generated and compiled the DanceX11 deployment schemas.
• Verified xsc has no Boost runtime dependency and exercised C++ and IDL generation.

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Walkthrough

This pull request modernizes C++ ownership and declarations across schema parsing, semantic graph and traversal code, Xerces utilities, and the command-line tool. It replaces selected raw or legacy ownership patterns, adds move operations to XStr, and updates pointer checks, aliases, exception specifications, and override declarations.

Changes

C++ modernization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Semantic graph and traversal declarations XSC/SemanticGraph/*, XSC/Traversal/*	The graph code uses std::addressof for selected pointer operations and rewrites aliases with using. The traversal declarations add override; selected classes delete copy and move operations.
Xerces string ownership XSC/utils/XercesString.*	XStr adds noexcept move construction and move assignment. Its append and erase methods allocate replacement buffers through Xerces’ memory manager.
Xerces helpers and resolver declarations XSC/utils/XML_Error_Handler.*, XSC/utils/XML_Helper*, XSC/utils/XML_Schema_Resolver.*	The XML helpers adopt unique_ptr for parser ownership and use Xerces-qualified types. Exception messages use XMLString::release; the XMLException path rethrows the caught exception. Error-handler and resolver declarations update overrides and special member functions. write_DOM still returns false.
Parser ownership and namespace lookup XSC/Parser.*	The parser uses managed buffers and unique_ptr in place of Boost scoped arrays and auto_ptr. ns_prefix drops its Boolean parameter and uses lookupPrefix.
Command-line ownership and diagnostics XSC/xsc.cpp	The command-line tool uses unique_ptr for the parsed schema, updates ErrorDetector declarations, and qualifies stream operations. Existing error return values remain unchanged.

Priority: ⚪ Pending latest changes

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Refactor

Suggested reviewers: wrotte

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 447c4

The normal XSC build is not shown to be blocked, but users of the public graph deletion methods cannot compile against this change. Fix those methods before merging unless that API break is explicitly accepted.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 14.52% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 124 functions across 24 files. (1 skipped…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

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Title check		The title accurately describes the broad modernization changes across XSC. It does not identify the primary ownership change from std::auto_ptr to std::unique_ptr, but it remains related and understan…

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Explanation

The title accurately describes the broad modernization changes across XSC. It does not identify the primary ownership change from std::auto_ptr to std::unique_ptr, but it remains related and understandable.

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Docstring coverage is 14.52% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 124 functions across 24 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Review comments at @XSC/SemanticGraph/Graph.tpp:
- Line 60: Update the deletion-pointer initialization from the const references
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📒 Files selected for processing: 26

• XSC/Parser.cpp
• XSC/Parser.hpp
• XSC/SemanticGraph/Complex.hpp
• XSC/SemanticGraph/Context.hpp
• XSC/SemanticGraph/Elements.hpp
• XSC/SemanticGraph/Graph.hpp
• XSC/SemanticGraph/Graph.tpp
• XSC/SemanticGraph/Schema.hpp
• XSC/Traversal/Attribute.hpp
• XSC/Traversal/Complex.hpp
• XSC/Traversal/Element.hpp
• XSC/Traversal/Elements.hpp
• XSC/Traversal/Elements.tpp
• XSC/Traversal/Enumeration.hpp
• XSC/Traversal/Fundamental.hpp
• XSC/Traversal/Namespace.hpp
• XSC/Traversal/Schema.hpp
• XSC/utils/XML_Error_Handler.cpp
• XSC/utils/XML_Error_Handler.h
• XSC/utils/XML_Helper.h
• XSC/utils/XML_Helper_T.cpp
• XSC/utils/XML_Schema_Resolver.cpp
• XSC/utils/XML_Schema_Resolver.h
• XSC/utils/XercesString.cpp
• XSC/utils/XercesString.h
• XSC/xsc.cpp

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• XSC/Traversal/Elements.tpp

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