Re: MathML DOM implementation: I need some advise

Thanks Luca,

>The good thing
>would be that it would be easy to create bindings for any other
>language, including Ocaml and C++ which means that in a few shots we
>would deliver a MathML DOM implementation (I can hardly find one that is
>free) for virtually any language.
This is the reason pushing me for the C implementation.
Later we will have just to update gmetadom (or to create a gmetammldom...)

>I think the MathML DOM can be implemented taking the DOM implementation
>as a black box. Unfortunately, because Gdome is plain C and because of
>the way the C++ binding is done, it is not easy to "extend" the DOM
>implementation as you would do in Java, so that the Document node would
>be the factory for MathML DOM elements.
>
This is the main risk that could push the schedule. I'm using the free time 
I have in my paternity leave...

>Were you thinking about implementing the DOM for the presentation only
>or the whole set of interfaces?
I would like to implement the whole set of interfaces.
The "world" community is missing a math editor doing both content and 
presentation. I hope, for example, that the MathML library will be used by 
the OMDOC community.

>Have you considered automatic generation
>of the code? A fair amount of methods can be generated automatically I
>think, this would reduce the code to hand-write and would make it easier
>to switch to an alternative approach if the one you try first does not
>seem to work well.
I was going to start with "copy and paste" from the Gdome code itself and 
from the MathML2 specification. Can you suggest me a tool to help me 
automatically generate most of the code?

   Pierre-Paul

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