Dear Doug, all,
i am participating the W3C Media Annotations Working Group [1] and co-
edit the API for Resource 1.0 document [2]. Since we are going to LC
soon, we want to initiate implementing the API specified. The main
intention is, that we translate the WebIDL specification of the API
automatically by the use of a WebIDL parser. Yet, we have identified
the "esidl" parser [3], which is able to perform the transformation of
WebIDL descriptions into method stubs (e.g., C++ or Java). We tried to
translate our API, but translation errors occurd (e.g., because of
array definitions). I found a mailing list entry about a discussion
[4] regarding WebIDL and Arrays - maybe the translation error is
somehow linked with this problem?
My overall question is, if you have any experience with WebIDL parser,
or perhaps could point me to a project, which is most up-to-date to
the current version of the WebIDL specification? I have also tried to
validate our API spec using the validator of [5], but i am not quiet
sure if this validator is able to handle the array definitions. Do you
know also a validator, to make sure if our spec is correct?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Florian
[1] http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/
[2] http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/drafts/API10/LC/Overview.html
(LC version)
[3] http://code.google.com/p/es-operating-system/wiki/esidl
[4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-script-coord/2009OctDec/0092.html
[5] http://widl.webvm.net/
_____________________________
Dipl. Inf. Florian Stegmaier
Chair of Distributed Information Systems
University of Passau
Innstr. 43
94032 Passau
Room 248 ITZ
Tel.: +49 851 509 3063
Fax: +49 851 509 3062
[email protected]
https://www.dimis.fim.uni-passau.de/iris/
http://twitter.com/fstegmai
_____________________________
