xml-dev - Re: Component Markup Language

[Robb Shecter <shecter@darmstadt.gmd.de>]

Nigel Hutchison wrote:

> Then a server could project its own GUI api and leave it to the client side
> to choose C++, Java etc to build the interface at run time.

Yes.

> I suspect that
> in most cases the bandwidth required to shift the XML GUI description would
> be quite a bit less than the
> compiled java classes. If this is so than "Even Cooler" would be XML GUI
> interpreter built into a Internet Browser.

How about this: Have one XSL document per client side scripting language.  That is, different
XSL documents could implement:

Component-XML->DHTML             (This particular one would give you your "Even Cooler" idea.)

Component-XML->Java BeanShell
Component-XML->Smalltalk
etc...

...then, a client side browser applies whatever XSL template is best for it, gets the the
resulting kind of script it understands, and on the fly generates a UI.

- Robb


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