Re: Headcount

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 11:53, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
> Hellen Claggett <[email protected]>:
> >
> > Hello Magnus,
> > 
> > About a month ago, I volunterred to work on a Glade-like xml reader for
> > anygui. Well, I've completed a working first pass at the concept and
> > would like to run it by you (and the rest of the Anygui developers). I
> > have to say that XML is quite nifty once you've wrapped your head around
> > it.
> 
> Absolutely. We've just had a little discussion about this (and the XUL
> format) on the list. (I hope you don't mind me cc'ing the list on
> this.)

I followed the discussion with interest since I was (and still am)
learning XML at the time.

> At this point, I've got:
> >  - an XML DTD which tries to mimic anygui's API,
> 
> OK. We should probably define a mapping to/from XUL at some time in
> the fugure.

I agree. I was trying to learn the anygui API and XML so I didn't really
want to stir XUL into my head until the two other subjects had settled.
I made this new DTD since it was easier to create an exact 1 to 1 mapping
between the API and the DTD. Because XUL appears much more extensive is
scope that what anygui currently provides, I think it will be trickier to
map XUL into anygui commands.

I am planning to work on writing an XUL parser at some point. I'm also
interested on making an UIML parser too, if I have time. Heck, a Glade
parser to boot :-)

I will say that the nice thing about having an anygui dedicated XML
format is that the format can grow in step with anygui's API.

Jonathan



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