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Re: InnerXml is like printf (WAS: Underwhelmed)

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• Subject: Re: InnerXml is like printf (WAS: Underwhelmed)
• From: Miles Sabin <miles@m...>
• Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:13:31 +0100
• In-reply-to: <200209221440.59871.mbatsis@n...>
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m batsis wrote,
> So, supposing our library features a prefix of 'MM_', we would need
> something like the following in Mozilla.
>
> // standard way to create an element in Moz
> var oElem = document.createElement("p");
>
> // should be extended to also accept
> var oElem = document.createElement(new MM_Element("<p>some
> text</p>"));
>
> // which is equal to
> var oElem = document.createElement("p");
> var sNode =  document.createTextNode("some text");
> oElem.appendChild(sNode);

Ahh ... I see what you mean.

Well, until now I was only thinking of this as being applicable to a new 
generic XML APIs like XOM.

But now you mention it, I guess a template string syntax could be both 
API and host language neutral ... the only qualification being possible 
clashes with particular host language conventions for character 
escapes. Which is guess isn't much of a surprise: it works for regular 
expressions.

So I guess that means that something like this could be retrofitted to 
JDOM, dom4j, JAXB (as Arjun suggested) and the W3C DOM across all 
language bindings. If that were so, then the obvious thing to do would 
be to simply add some new constructors/factory methods, eg. for the 
Mozilla DOM,

  var oElem = document.createElementFromTemplate("p/text(sometext)");

Oh, and BTW: Hungarian Notation is _still_ an abomination ;-)

Cheers,


Miles

• References:
  • RE: Underwhelmed (WAS: XOM micro tutorial)
    • From: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons@d...>
  • Re: InnerXml is like printf (WAS: Underwhelmed)
    • From: Miles Sabin <miles@m...>
  • Re: InnerXml is like printf (WAS: Underwhelmed)
    • From: "m batsis" <mbatsis@n...>

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