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Mark Birbeck wrote: > (OK I know I've cracked that one already - it's the end of the week. But > really, if you want an XML specification for a user interface, surely > HTML 4.0 is the one to choose. Then you could use a 'cool browser' that > has an "XML GUI Interpreter" built in - like, well, IE4 and Netscape 4.) Hi, (I found the "HTML" comment very funny, btw. :) I'm thinking of something much more heavy-duty. Like, I want to support a complex user interface that has many complex widgets, with flexible event wiring, that must make accesses to back end data. Something like the UI for a Bloomberg Box, or Microsoft Encarta. This in itself is "easy", and typically done by having a platform-specific UI that retrieves domain objects from a datastore/business logic middle tier. More interesting and challenging would be to make the UI/backend split "higher up". Do all the layout work on the backend, and just send a platform-independent description of the UI over the wire. And -that- is what's led me to look for a Component Markup Language. - Robb xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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