Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-08 Thread Ken Corey
On 03/06/2012 18:47, Alejandro Tejada wrote: There are many scripts to convert stacks to XML, but... How many developers have taken the path of converting this stack from XML to other formats? Searching the web, I found many free and paid converters from XML to almost every file format

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Ken- Friday, June 8, 2012, 12:44:31 AM, you wrote: I don't get out of bed in the morning without a business case. Yeah, sometimes I have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, too. g -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-08 Thread Richmond
On 06/08/2012 06:31 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Ken- Friday, June 8, 2012, 12:44:31 AM, you wrote: I don't get out of bed in the morning without a business case. Yeah, sometimes I have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, too. g Normally I get out of bed in the morning with a business

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: I believe that the real problem is to work alone in this XML exchange project... :-) Maybe, but the absence of other devs anxious to dive in to help may also merely suggest that such a translator has limited utility to the community. After all, it's not like XML is

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-07 Thread Colin Holgate
XML predates RunRev, though it's only been a standard for five years or so. But Richard was onto the main reason why it hasn't been used to convert things to other formats. XML just describes a way of structuring data, it doesn't specify what that data is. Even if you take something that is

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-07 Thread Alejandro Tejada
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Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote [snip] Maybe, but the absence of other devs anxious to dive in to help may also merely suggest that such a translator has limited utility to the community. [snip] But LiveCode stacks are only useful when run with the LiveCode engine. Well, that

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
But it wouldn't work as a stack anymore. If all a stack consisted of were the things in it, you could probably export to all those easily, but a stack is not just the things, but the interaction between the things, and the things and the user. How would you get a web version of a stack to

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-07 Thread Richmond
Many long years ago (about 9) I did some work for an odd person in Edinburgh to design a stack that could be convereted to HTML at a button click, where it is now I really don't know. If anyone can locate the thing it may have some, residual, value. Richmond.

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-07 Thread Peter Haworth
I think I brought this up the last time this discussion surfaced, but I think there's benefit to be had from being to able to discern exactly what changes took place between two versions of a stack file - were any controls added/deleted or did their properties change, which scripts were

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: I think I brought this up the last time this discussion surfaced, but I think there's benefit to be had from being to able to discern exactly what changes took place between two versions of a stack file - were any controls added/deleted or did their properties change,

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-05 Thread Alejandro Tejada
them immediately usable in Russian. You are correct. This means that no one has written such exporters. Alejandro -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Converting-a-Stack-to-many-formats-starting-from-XML-tp4650197p4650294.html Sent from the Revolution

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Alejandro Tejada capellan2000@... writes: You are correct. This means that no one has written such exporters. Well, not quite. I've done conversions to and from VB and html and javascript and whatever when I've had to. It's not a very rewarding experience and it's not really scalable or

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-05 Thread Richmond
On 06/05/2012 08:35 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Hi Mark, Mark Wieder wrote [snip] I've done stack-to-xml and various xml-to-stack conversions before, but they're *very* specific to given tasks. XML isn't a file specification, but a data-transfer format. Just because you can write English

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-05 Thread Richmond
On 06/05/2012 09:59 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Alejandro Tejada capellan2000@... writes: You are correct. This means that no one has written such exporters. Well, not quite. I've done conversions to and from VB and html and javascript and whatever when I've had to. It's not a very rewarding

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 12:16:16 PM, you wrote: and rewrote each one directly in RunRev - in most cases more elegantly. Funnily enough, I found that by recreating everything in RunRev it allowed me reflect on what was rather better about RunRev as opposed to Visual Basic (apart

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-05 Thread Alejandro Tejada
exchange project... :-) Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Converting-a-Stack-to-many-formats-starting-from-XML-tp4650197p4650320.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-04 Thread Mark Wieder
Alejandro Tejada capellan2000@... writes: So, my question could be stated in this form: Have you written a specific Stack to XML script to convert a stack to another file format? Yes, but... I've done stack-to-xml and various xml-to-stack conversions before, but they're *very* specific to

Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-03 Thread Alejandro Tejada
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