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 On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Michael Champion wrote: > On Wednesday, Oct 29, 2003, at 09:23 America/Detroit, Bullard, Claude L > (Len) wrote: > > It is the performance of the mush of different XML > > languages and objects that would make me wince. It gets compiled down. XAML is the source-code format, not the executable format. > > One > > has to ask, why do this in XML at all. > > I've been wondering that myself. Isn't the whole point of XML > portability (or interoperability) across platforms, at the price of > "bloated" data and "inefficient" performance? That's usually a good > tradeoff, but not if you stay in a proprietary box. That's a point of XML, but I don't know that it's the only one. If you were making a declarative, human-readable UI-description language, wouldn't you use XML even if you suspected that the only application to use it was your own resource compiler? Bloat and inefficiency aren't concerns here; developer/designer ease-of-use is. And if you add in the possibility of making XAML a target of XSLT transforms, or an output format of graphic design tools (apparently, Adobe demonstrated something like that at the PDC), you do get some exchange and interoperability, too. -- Mike Kozlowski http://www.klio.org/mlk/ 
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