Re: Mapping files?

[Alexander Johannesen]

> Now of course; if I saw the four-line xSiteable XML syntax, I could very
> quikly get down to business and understand
> what it all meant. If I saw the latter 32-line XTM, I would freak out, and
> look elsewhere for something simpler. But
> it goes without saying that there is *much* I can't express in my simple
> xSiteable XML syntax. But as far as
> I am concerned (which is GUI development), I don't need
> that complexity right now. I want to get comfertable with
> what I need first.
>
> Maybe this is what you adress; the XTM above *looks* complex,
> but it really isn't if you bother sitting down with it to
> understand it. And, with the risk of stepping on toes, maybe webdevelopers
> don't want to be bothering about or
> don't even understand the "complexity", and leave it before
> they "get it".
>

Rught, if you have an application that has a small, fixed set of
constructions you can make the surface syntax much simpler, and have a GUI
to make things even easier.

I also use a working transfer format for my application, which tends to look
like this:

   <topic id="tt-research-organisation" type="tt-research-facility"
name="Research Organisation"/>

   <occur parent="o-bond-biz-school" type="tt-website">
      <resourceRef>http://www.biz.bond.edu.au/</resourceRef>
   </occur>

And like yours, it cannot capture everything.  But it is easier to turn into
the javascript that my app uses.

Cheers,

Tom P