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The new MS Media Player 7 uses XML for skins. http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/imedia/windowsmedia/wmpskins.asp#wmpskins _creating Sample Theme file <THEME> <VIEW clippingColor = "#CCCC00" backgroundImage = "background.bmp" titleBar = "false"> <BUTTONGROUP mappingImage = "map.bmp" hoverImage = "hover.bmp"> <PLAYELEMENT mappingColor = "#00FF00" /> <STOPELEMENT mappingColor = "#FF0000" /> </BUTTONGROUP> </VIEW> </THEME> There are two ways of looking at this 1. This is Bad and will encourage every one to come up with their own flavor of XML. XHTML should have been used to describe Skins and any other UI standards. If Skins require more than what XHTML currently provides, then that functionality needs to be added as an XHTML module. etc... 2. This is good. It allows developers to focus on the task of creating the Theme using simple tags (and not having to learn XHTML). XSLT could then be used to convert this into XHTML. etc... Counter point to 2. If the focus is to hide the developers from XHTML, then a visual XHTML tool could be used to generate XHTML directly. etc... .... What do other list members think of everyone generating their own XML file format to represent common data, in this case the data is visual data. Or is this a small issue due to tools like XSLT ? Thx, Ashvil *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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