Re: [Laszlo-dev] progress with Legals doc tools

[Henry Minsky]

If I recall correctly, the way that the tag compiler works now, when it sees a <class> tag, it

1) detemines the superclass name
2) looks in the schema DOM  and  finds the definition element that represents the superclass
3)  deep copies it
4)  extends it with any new attributes that the new class declares

So the schema in-core DOM tree is dynamically extended with each user class <class> tag

So to "bootstrap" the system,  the schema has to be seeded with some definition of each class that
you want to be able to extend in LZX.

'node' and 'view' are the most popular things to extend, but the tag compiler can extend anything
that is declared in the base schema, since it just looks for the superclass definition and clones it.