[REBOL] Re: ml dialect, scheme and rebol associations
From: bry:itnisk at: 21-Jan-2003 9:56
>Thanks!
>Is there anything in that message or the associated web site, that you
feel
>would be a good or useful addition to the ML dialect?
Not particularly, I suppose with the library restructuring that's going
on there'll be some sort of xml-tools download which will consist of
your ML dialect and Gavin's xml scripts, such as xml-object.r
One thing I was thinking about is that as the ML dialect now handle's
namespaces there could be a rebol namespace. If we defined some number
of REBOL agreed on metadata etc. then one could, when generating markup
with ML place namespaced attributes on a tag. I've found this to be
extremely useful in situations where you want to round trip, although
using tools other than Rebol.
For example one thing we do in our product when producing PDF is first
generate XSL-FO, we've set up a css-like system for handling styling of
the FO. The first run through of an FO instance sets styling through
classes, and generates a PDF, if one wants to further edit said PDF one
can examine Ids and types for portions of the FO tree.
So for example
<fo:block it:class="p" it:id="Welcomep11"
it:type="pInsideSection2ContainsTable">
.....
</fo:block>
This is of course an example specific to presentation, but if there were
some things specified that one could put out that we all agree on, then
xml-object could maybe be extended to allow it to better consume markup
generated with these namespaced declarations/attributes.
Anyway forgive me if this doesn't seem very clear here, as I haven't
given it a lot of thought, but hopefully it will strike someone as
interesting and there can be some discussion.
