Re: Re: Automatic Generation of Menus

Hi Gregor,

> im looking at xul right now, and it may make sense to use the xul
> syntax for menu definitions, even if we do not currently plan to
> render the menu in xul. advantage: you can use tools like xulmaker
> to design your menus in a gui editor, and we can later use more
> of xul where it makes sense. we could add in a lenya namespace for the
> urls:

This sounds very good. But I think we should use standardized
XML applications only when

- we use them for the purpose they were meant for and
- we can be sure they meet our demands.

I don't know if it is better practise to add proprietary tags
to a standard XUL document, or to define a simple language for
our menus and transform them into XUL in a final step.

I have the feeling that I would use a clear and well-defined
Lenya menu language which supports all our strange workflow /
link mechanisms etc. and transform it into XUL when the labels
are real labels and the links are real links. But I'm not sure
at all.

BTW - does validating a document with a schema work when it contains
tags from "foreign" namespaces?

Andreas