Re: [Jscodee-devel] More progress on updating the XSLT

[Allen D. <far...@be...>]

So you use one source file to generate the code for mindscript, the code 
to display for the user and the code to define what is being shown to 
make it all pretty?  They all then get piped together to form one HTML file?

If that is right, that is cool!
Allen


Gary Frederick wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 04:42, Allen Demers wrote:
> 
>>What is the svg XSLT for?  What are you translating it to?  I am a 
>>little unclear about what is happening I think...
>>
>>Allen
> 
> 
> Glad you asked!!! Here is a long answer:-)
> 
> JSCode is an XML application. The XML lets us represent programs. We use
> XSLT to generate MindScript, NQC and SVG. The SVG displays the program
> in blocks like this
>   http://jscodee.sourceforge.net/jscode/images/box.png
> 
> That image came from an SVG file. The SVG file was generated from an XML
> file that was processed by an XSLT stylesheet that converts JSCode XML
> into SVG. phew :-)
> 
> So, we use our html pages to create XML. To add 1.0 to var1, start here
>   http://jscodee.sourceforge.net/jscode/buildBlocks/basic/Add.html
> 
> the JSCode XML is
>   <block kind="basic" name="Add">
>     <param kind="variable">var1</param>
>     <param kind="value">1.0</param>
>   </block>
> 
> We add that XML to a program. We can generate Mindscript
>   var1 = 100
> or perhaps NQC or Java
>   var1 = 100;
> 
> or SVG.
> 
> The SVG would be something like this:
>     <rect stroke="black" fill="forestgreen" rx="5px" y="51px" x="55px"
> width="80px" height="60px"/>
>     <rect stroke="black" fill="yellow" y="106px" x="65px" width="60px"
> height="8px"/>
>     <rect stroke="black" fill="forestgreen" y="60px" x="129px"
> width="12px" height="42px"/>
>     <text fill="white" x="65" y="77">Set</text>
>     <text fill="white" x="59" y="91">var1 = 1.0</text>
> 
> We get MindScript or SVG or Java because we have XSLT stylesheets that
> translate JSCode XML.
> 
> I'm updating the XSLT to understand V0.3 JSCode XML. When that is done,
> we can update the SVG generated to use CSS. If we want to be able to
> change the color of a basic block from forestgreen to some other color,
> we will change the SVG something like this
>     <rect class="basicBlock" rx="5px" y="51px" x="55px" width="80px"
> height="60px"/>
> and have CSS that sets or resets the stroke and fill for anything of the
> 'class' "basicBlock". 
> 
> and...
> 
> I'm using the SVG to get graphics. Some day when most browsers support
> SVG out of the box, we can display the graphics directly. Till then I
> generate images so everyone can see them. Some day...
> 
> Better?
> 
> Gary
> 
> The original message.
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1650986&forum_id=23380
> 
> 
> 
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