Re: XUL Tag Plugins

I know about tagdef, and I have a DTD for Luxor-XUL, I don't know where 
I got it, or if I made it myself.  I thought it came with Luxor-XUL.

The problem with tagdef is that verifying it can be a problem.  If it 
were something closer to:

<tagdef class=net.sf.something.PhoneField"
name="phone"/>
<tag type="phone" id="phone1" color="red" />

, then you could verify it much easier.

In any case, since Luxor-XUL is open source, I'm betting in a lot of 
cases, like the phoneField, most people would benefit from extending and 
sharing, but there is always going to be some component that only you 
need, and no one wants to make the whole library larger just for you. :)

It's certainly something that probably should be thought out, but maybe 
the advantages of verification aren't as large as the work involved.

I looked up the XBL spec on the W3C site.  It's pretty much your 
standard <!ELEMENT > <!ATTLIST > kind of tags.  Embedding the entire DTD 
in the document would be silly, and I don't think there is a standard 
(at least I didn't see one) that covered augmenting a DTD with more tags 
when referencing an external DTD.

Maybe I'll stop being so lazy and try to hack in the ability to do it 
this way as well, that way my verification scripts won't complain about 
tagdefs.  :)  I want to be able to give the GUI designers what they need 
to make a good GUI without bothering me to code it in Swing.  It would 
just make the entire process more effecient.

I am very impressed and appreciative of the fact that you considered 
WebStart when making this project though.  How do you plan on keeping it 
that way with SWT, or do you?  I've never heard of packaging native 
libraries in a Web Start application, so I would be interested in 
knowing how to do this.

-Sam



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