--- In [email protected], Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 15 June 2006 22:10, Gordon Smith wrote: > > For example, one of the rules of MXML is that you can write a scalar > > property as either an attribute or a child tag. That isn't something > > ...that many people do.
I've done it, and I've only been using Flex for a couple weeks. Instead of using the dataProvider attribute, I defined my dataProvider as a child component. In fact, if you look at "Creating a DataGrid control", you'll see they do the same thing. But it's a moot point. If the language allows it and xsd doesn't, then the xsd wouldn't always validate the code. So what good is it? > > that is easy to describe in Schema. Also, you can put controls inside > > containers, but not containers inside controls... well, except for > > It doesn't have to be perfect (esp. if its a best effort labs project or blog > posting)ยท Why doesn't it have to be perfect? If it's not perfect, it won't validate mxml. It will validate some subset of mxml. That's hardly good enough for something you want to use to replace Flex Builder. And as soon as they changed some components or added new ones, they'd have to go monkey with the schema again, which would still be less than complete because of the shortcomings of XSD. And as soon as you download someone else's piece of code to use - you're screwed. Because THEY sure didn't write a schema. So now you either get to leave out their code, mark some areas as non-validatable, or write their schema for them. Doesn't sound very appealing to me. Personally, I'd much rather them spend the same time fixing bugs than creating and updating a schema that's only good for some certain small subset of projects. I don't think it's some grand conspiracy to keep any third-party editor from existing. I think they just build the best language they could and said if anyone wanted to build an IDE, that's fine with them. But I'm glad they didn't hobble their IDE to only allow things that are stricly xml schema-compatible. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
