Subject: Re: XSL : Another question From: Anders Kristensen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:25:18 +0000 |
Patrice Bonhomme wrote: > > Does someone is using XSL (or something else) for automaticaly generating a > Graphical User Interface (in Java AWT/SWING) from an XML document ? I spend a bit of time trying to do exactly that. Conceptually it's really simple - define a set of standardized GUI objects with appropriate cross-platform attributes (as it should be applicable to windowing toolkits other than Swing) and rather than generating XML documents in the FO language you'd generate it in this GUI object (GO?) language which can then be interpreted by clients. I think this is a good and entirely viable idea but my initial experience was that it probably requires some experimentation to come up with the right set of GUI objects to get good looking and portable results. In particular, layout managers might be tricky to get Right. It sounds like the sort of idea that has huge potential, though. Especially as XML encoded data increasingly gets shipped around without being embedded in "real" documents. Presumably it also complements client-side scripting nicely, as these languages doesn't (always at least) have access to "proper" GUI toolkits. Cheers, Anders -- Anders Kristensen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/ak/ Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, UK XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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