Hello, IBM developerWorks has published an article by Elliotte Rusty Harold - of XML in a Nutshell, XML Bible and Effective XML book fame - titled "An early look at sXBL - When XSLT isn't enough".
The article summary states: SVG's XML Binding Language -- sXBL -- is an XML vocabulary being developed at the W3C as a means of mapping XML elements in arbitrary vocabularies to SVG pictures that represent those elements. For example, an XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) document can be turned into SVG code that shows the actual Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagram encoded in the XMI document. But sXBL takes the separation of presentation from content one step further: It is a generic language for rendering documents as arbitrarily complex two-dimensional pictures. This article offers an overview of this emerging and potentially powerful technology. Elliotte concludes: Longer term, the W3C working group is planning to implement target formats other than SVG. For example, you'll be able to use similar techniques to write stylesheets that produce XUL or XAML to bind directly into the browser. It seems likely that sXBL will become a key part of the next-generation World Wide Web. Full story @ http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-sxbl1 What's your take? Do you think XBL (XML Binding Language) is a better alternative to CSS or XSL/T for creating XAML or XUL content? - Gerald ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ xul-announce mailing list xul-announce@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-announce
