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• Subject: RE: XUL Compact Syntax Study Now Online - Is XML too hard for Aunt Trudie?
• From: Gerald Bauer <luxorxul@y...>
• Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:04:02 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: "Kirkham, Pete \(UK\)" <pete.kirkham@b...>
• In-reply-to: <820DBA1A8ECA1D45A557AFD03CF4DEE06E4FCB@glkms0015>

Hello Pete Kirkham, 

> Does the 'C' form have any relation to the 'C'
> programming language, other than use of braces?

  Not really. The idea is to use a syntax that at
least looks familiar to C/C++/C#/Java coders.

> If not, then replace it with either UML 2 HUTN or
> ASN.1 value notation. The direct mapping of the
> schema for XUL to ASN.1 would give you something
> very similar; the UML 2 HUTN could (potentially)
> give you CASE tool interop. There doesn't seem to be
> any need to invent yet another curly brace language
> when there exist ones that cover your use cases.

  Sorry I'm not familiar with UML 2 HUTN but I will
look into it. Thanks for the suggestion.

> Would the 'lisp' form support macros? You can get
> some way towards having the code look like the gui
> if you do (see example below). It also would seem
> more natural to use keyword symbols rather than @foo
> for the lisp form.

  Again thanks for your suggestion. For now the
lisp-style syntax is just a basic syntax without any
macros. Thanks for the idea and the alternative Lisp
syntax suggestion.

> Am I right in thinking that the labels for your
> widgets are just close to rather than associated
> with the widgets they label?

   Good point. The labels and widgets should get
connected for better accessibility. One "hack" is to
use a [label]for attribute.  

   - Gerald

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Gerald Bauer
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http://xul.sourceforge.net  

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