One thing to be wary of is mixing style information with content
information. You can keep style information in XML just be sure to keep it
separate from your pure content. Keep thinking about what is pure content
that can be reused in html, pdf or whatever from stuff that is purely
specific to Director (or whatever presentation medium).
The ideal would be for someone to create an xtra that can read in XSL (which
is XML) to get the layout information into some object. Perhaps there are
several XSL styles (or page layouts) that you would like to use. They would
live as "page objects". Then you have content XML which has some attribute
which knows to associate it to a particular page object. The XSL has the
layout info and the XML has the content.
The importance or separation of content from presentation is extremely
important for those who want to be able to reuse the content in a variety of
presenetations. This is becoming a major area - licenseable content.
Director is definitely lagging behind. If you are serious about XML and
serious about developing with it then you should look at developing in java
(and XSL and/or XSLT). There is so much less pain with java and XML (if you
can code 1-frame movies you can code java). Hopefully the next XML xtra can
make life easier for D8 users... but with Nav6 not supporting Shockwave at
all and java swing making life easier for developing real gui
applications... I think Director will be relegated to the fluff. It is a
shame.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 2:01 PM
Subject: RE: <lingo-l> XML Documents in Lingo
> Hi Christopher,
>
> Odd how these synchronicities occur. I have been in the process of
creating
> XML definitions for behavior properties and looking for a way of exporting
> existing property lists into an external XML document - when you appear
with
> what looks like a part of the puzzle I'm needing to implement.
>
> Thus I'm more than happy to "take a quick look" - and perhaps, with your
> permission, borrow some ideas. Do you have a link?
>
> -Sean.
>
> > I've created a rudimentary implementation of XML as a parent
> > script.
>
>
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