Re: Re: obvious extension of o-xml to all forms of programming, and need for import facility from existing code

Hi Martin,

Actually, I am a relative newcomer to the idea of literate programming.  I
am speaking with my relatively scarce experience using CWEB within MS-Dev
Studio. I always found it awkward to code all text in TeX and not have a
WYSIWIG editor.  In the back of my mind, I thought there could be a way to
integrate more visual artifacts in a system like CWEB and then I got to know
about literate modelling.  The sort of stuff we were programming involved a
lot of mathematical equations and, again, I thought that an XML equivalent
to CWEB could probably be used to generate a scientific artifact closely
linked to the code.  I figured if I could code MathML equations (later to be
formatted appropriately in an online help system, or on the Web, or FOPped
out to a PDF ...) in a literate program or an SVG diagram or what not, that
could be the basis for generating accompanying scientific artifacts.  The
ability to link components such as a MathML equation with an element in a
UML diagram would tie in the "business logic" (in this case, the "science"
behind) with the programmed system and that link is very important to system
developers and users.  I could see a help system generating fractions of
artifacts on demand.

Anyhow, I don't know if o:XML could potentially be an all-encompassing
vector for all that ML info and this is why I'm throwing my ideas in the
fishbowl!

All the best,

Yves Moisan