XML is only to save the programmer effort and was created because so many languages can't process text and do not have good data structures. It is not the best way for a user to hand enter a design for a UI. And in fact in python it makes the programmers job harder because reading the file is easy, and having to learn to manipulate XML is much more complicated than manipulating a python class or dict.
libavg should not be using XML - in fact its a good example of why not. Why am I calling GetElementById() in their example? Because they started with XML and got caught up in it. Make it python and its node.logo instead of node.GetElementById(logo). You can rewrite their XML example in a more readable and editable way, but they started with XML and managed to mix in javascript. If instead you do your own thing you can make it much simpler and easier to use. If you have to work with C, then really what XML is giving you is a tree data structure to work with. You don't need that in python. I suggest you make a pythonic way to do this in addition to this XML if you have to have XML for working with C. Mark On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Jake b <[email protected]> wrote: > I would use XML. It opens the audience to a larger group, and makes it > easier for other tools to work with. > > This might work? Says it uses HTML for layout , python for scripting. > http://www.libavg.de/concept.php > > see also, xrc tutorial: ( XML layout for wxwindows ) > http://wiki.wxpython.org/XRCTutorial > > -- > Jake >
