XML as a standard for describing data structure is great - no problem with it. What you describe sounds weird - I doubt it would be feasible for this use and bring any advantage over existing interpreted languages. What is the main reason for it? "Everybody's using it" doesn't seem enough to me - i.e. everyone's using it, let's use it too (especially when you propose to use it for something it was not intended to). If you want to be able to put together applications quickly I much better liked the XUL idea that was under discussion here (but that's the GUI part). It's already here, well developed, tested - just port it...
Just my 2 cents ;-)
-----Original Message----- From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Rick Langschultz Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 6:25 PM To: ReactOS Development List Subject: [ros-dev] Feature Request
XML is actively becoming part of technology and programming. Every major development company has embraced some form of XML in one product or another. I was wondering if ReactOS would be interested in developing some form of application to handle XML-based applications.
These applications would be written in XML and bundled in a ZIP file much like the ODF formats that OpenOffice 2.0 is using. XML applications would be allowed to communicate with some processing application protocols and functions. I think something like this would be a great feature that would quickly allow novice programmers to quickly develop applications for ReactOS and share them on the website. Think of it, no compilation time. That would be great.
I will try to write a proof-of-concept application for Windows XP and 2000 for trial and testing.
My main question is: If something like this is wanted/needed/or if ReactOS members finds interesting would ReactOS think about supporting it in the first production release. Which is still far off, I would imagine. _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev