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"Joshua E. Smith" wrote: > > My language doesn't use constructs like "if-then" or "for-next" so the user > wouldn't be exposed to any nasty parse trees anyway; but even if it did, I > don't know that > > <for var="i" from="0" to="100"> > stuff > </for> A couple of questions: How much syntax does a variable refrence take? What does a function call look like? I'm trying to determine how much you are actually building on the XML parser and how much you intend to do yourself. > I'm assuming that most programmers will not > actually write in the markup language, but rather will use editors which > produce markup as their output. If you think about it, that's what's > already happening with tools like Access or Delphi (users work in an > editor, and for the most part, don't touch the code). I don't think that Access dialog building is programming. Real programmers, developing their own algorithms and interfaces will likely find any non-textual programming user interface to be an impediment. Delphi and Visual Basic have pretty decent text editors built in -- for a reason. I encourage you to design the user interface before focusing on the syntax of your markup language. If people like the user interface then the behind-the-scenes XML issues will be comparatively trivial. But if programmers hate the user interface then the XML part will become irrelevant. My experience is that XML editors are optimized for prose documents and are poor for most other stuff. They aren't ideal user interfaces for databases, programming languages, schemas etc. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco The first three Noble Truths of Python: All that is not Python is suffering. The origin of suffering lies in the use of not-Python. The cessation of suffering can be achieved by not using not-Python. http://www.pauahtun.org/4nobletruthsofpython.html 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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