[Banking-pm] Parsing FIX messages

Rodrick Brown rodrick.brown at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 05:03:04 PST 2007


On Dec 19, 2007 5:22 AM, Martin Bower <martin.bower at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Dec 19, 2007 9:14 AM, <alex at owal.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >   > Does anyone know if a module is available for parsing FIX messages?
> > I
> > > didnt
> > > see any on cpan just wondering if anyone here did one internally?
> >
> >
> > Despite what the agencies seem to think I know nothing about the details
> >
> > of FIX.
> >
> > (Apparently my cv says I "fix" things - so they send me vacancies about
> > FIX).
> >
> > Anyway: What I understand is that no one really implements the *whole*
> > of
> > FIX - they only implement the bits they need for the task they are
> > doing.
> >
> > And since it is XML (right?) no one has seen a need to put it on CPAN.
> >
> > Shame really
> >
> > Alex
> >
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>
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to deal with this recently, as I've been doing a lot of
> work with Fix.
>
> I've written something which is usable but only just.  I parse the
> original .xml files, then store this in a data structure for use later.
>
> The thing I haven't quite got my head around yet is the repeating groups,
> and how to implement those.  My users want to be able to see Fix messages
> broken down by either Tag or value, and this doesn't really work when trying
> to sort repeating groups.
>
> If anyone has any docs which point out exactly how repeating groups works,
> I'd be happy to polish the package up and release it.
>

This is exactly what has been driving me crazy repeating groups and also
user defined tags, I have some code but its very ugly and only for the bits
I need its actually just to parse FIX logs into Tibco format to publish to a
down stream system via Tib.


>
>
> (which engine are you using btw ?)
>
> Regards
>
> Martin
>
>
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