On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 19:03 +0200, Bernd Jendrissek wrote: > [I'm not really a big XML fan, FWIW] > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:43 PM, DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "industry support" for xml is like "industry support" for zip files. > > It's not the syntax that's important, it's the data structure within > > it. Just because we're using XML does NOT mean that other XML-aware > > programs can understand it. > > If schematics were just a blob of XML, they could specify an XSLT > stylesheet for web browsers to use. You could then publish your > schematics as plain static files, and the XSLT magic in browsers that > understand that could transform the schematic into pretty trees, > perhaps even decorate the branches and leaves with javascript stuff > that would let you interact with a schematic, over the web.
I've coded a web-app using XSLT before now, and can honestly say I would rather write _scheme_ than write XSLT again. Scheme for goodness sake!! ;) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
