# Wrapper with VTK-9.0.1 is not generating xml files

**URL:** <https://discourse.vtk.org/t/wrapper-with-vtk-9-0-1-is-not-generating-xml-files/4447>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [October 19, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/wrapper-with-vtk-9-0-1-is-not-generating-xml-files/4447 "2020-10-19T17:29:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![abrahamperez](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@abrahamperez](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/abrahamperez)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/wrapper-with-vtk-9-0-1-is-not-generating-xml-files/4447/1 "2020-10-19T17:29:45Z")

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Later than replace VTK\_INCLUDE\_DIRS instead of VTK\_USE\_FILE, CMake is not generating the xml files

Some idea?

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**Author:** ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/ben.boeckel)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/wrapper-with-vtk-9-0-1-is-not-generating-xml-files/4447/2 "2020-10-19T19:32:49Z")

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What XML files are you referring to?

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**Author:** ![dgobbi](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/dgobbi/32/18_2.png) [@dgobbi](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/dgobbi)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/wrapper-with-vtk-9-0-1-is-not-generating-xml-files/4447/3 "2020-10-19T20:19:14Z")

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@ben.boeckel he’s referring to [WrapVTK](https://github.com/dgobbi/WrapVTK), which is my sandbox for testing certain bits of wrapping code before implementing the code in VTK itself. What WrapVTK does, essentially, is parse VTK headers and dump the contents (class definitions, macro definitions, namespaces, etc.) as xml. Kind of like CastXML, but with a different schema, and using the VTK wrapping tools to parse the files.

@abrahamperez it might be best to discuss the issue on the WrapVTK github pages, since WrapVTK is not part of VTK itself.