Hi, Mike (posting you into a couple of newsgroups where these things are being discussed--hope you don't mind) Did I respond to this already? Foggy headed. Plus I've been getting a lot of mail about the xulref. It has aged almost past usefulness, but I am trying to fix that. The xulref has been getting some updates (check the "submit" bug at the top of the intro page for a list of recent changes), and there are, of course, still a lot to make. I hadn't heard that the "align" attribute might be retired. Have to check on that. Anyway, the short answer is, after having ignored the xulref (and xul) for several months, I am just starting to try and get it back into reasonable shape. The prospect of making a XUL DTD is discussed from time to time. Haven't seen anything (again, that may be because I have little sense of what's going on in the xul world these days). Also I feel like things are changing enough to make that still a very difficult task (viz. recent element and attribute additions by evaughan and others). But then the extensibility of XUL--the extent to which it defies DTDs--is a good thing, as frustrating as it can be not to be able to pump it through something and validate it/get info/convert it/whatever. Lord knows that the mozilla UI itself depends often enough on the fact that unrecognized elements and attributes are not rendered. -ian Michael Daconta wrote: > Hi Ian, > > I heard that some attributes (like align) were deprecated - > do you plan on updating the programmer's reference soon? > > Also, are there any plans for a XUL DTD? > I am considering writing one but don't want to bother if > there will be alot of changes to elements or attributes. > > Thanks for any info, > > - Mike > ------------------------------- > Michael C. Daconta > Co-Author of XML Development with Java 2 > Java Pitfalls > Java 2 and JavaScript for C/C++ Programmers > Author of C++ Pointers and Dynamic Memory Management > www.mcbrad.com > > > > -- Ian Oeschger Netscape Communications ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation." --Tennessee Williams
