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Hi everybody, Let me present to the community XMLBars: XML driven menu bars. I intended it to serve as a simple and visually perceivable example of using XML to facilitate web design issues. Seems that it turned into a nice web GUI tool. I would highly appreciate your judgment and critique. Your contribution is very welcome. Here is my sin: Namespaces are used to point to document fragments collection (rather then element definitions) Why not? It is more convenient for me to say <group ref:id=""> then to use XPointer or Entity: It is easier for people to read (not only parsers matter). By changing namespace ( URN ) all the references defined with its alias will change automatically. It is also great for internalization. And, of course, I can define multiple namespaces of fragments. The fact that URN doesn't have to be a real URL makes the possibilities even greater. ----------------- XML behind XMLBars Menu Markup Language, if I may :) Menu bar rendering and formatting information is stored in XML and cashed in DOM by a parser. Submenus are rendered only when parent menu is activated. Action to be fired on a menu click event is also stored in XML. Action can be a Link to a web page or a chunk of JavaScript code. It can also be a Sub-Action. In this case child menu inherits parents action. Action can be parameterized. For example in the following fragment <MENU> <DESC>xml-dev archive</DESC> <LINK> http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/<PAR name="year"><PAR name="month">/index.html </LINK> <SUBMENU> <DESC>1999</DESC> <SUBACTION> <SUB name="year">99</SUB> </SUBACTION> <SUBMENU> <DESC>January</DESC> <SUBACTION> <SUB name="month">01< /SUB> </SUBACTION> </SUBMENU> <SUBMENU> <DESC>February</DESC> <SUBACTION> <SUB name="month">02</SUB> </SUBACTION> </SUBMENU> </SUBMENU> </MENU> two leaf submenus when clicked will point to: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/9901/index.html and http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/9902/index.html Most of magazines and monthly publications have similar structure. Reusable group of 12 submenu -months will help. The 3 years of XML-DEV archive will be as short as: <MENU> <DESC>xml-dev archive</DESC> <LINK> http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/<PAR name="year"><PAR name="month">/index.html </LINK> <SUBMENU> <DESC>1999</DESC> <SUBACTION> <SUB name="year">99</SUB> </SUBACTION> <SUBMENU> <SUBMENUGROUP ref:id="12months" xql:select="./SUB $le$ '04'"> </SUBMENU> </SUBMENU> <SUBMENU> <DESC>1998</DESC> <SUBACTION> <SUB name="year">98</SUB> </SUBACTION> <SUBMENU> <SUBMENUGROUP ref:id="12months"> </SUBMENU> </SUBMENU> <SUBMENU> <DESC>1997</DESC> <SUBACTION> <SUB name="year">97</SUB> </SUBACTION> <SUBMENU> <SUBMENUGROUP ref:id="12months " xql:select ="./SUB $ge$ '04'"> </SUBMENU> </SUBMENU> </MENU> The second optional attribute xql:select will filter first 4 months for current year and months starting with February for the year 1997. XMLBars implemented using IE5beta parser can be found at http://www.cogx.com/XMLBar. (Sorry, still working on cross-browser implementation). Nikita Ogievetsky Cogitech Inc. http://www.cogx.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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