Re: [Netreflector-develop] Re: Precise error information

[Mike R. <mik...@gm...>]

On 9/27/05, Owen Rogers <exo...@gm...> wrote:

> i'm also curious as to why people might choose
> netreflector over the default xml serialisation support in the .net
> framework.

I'm going to jump in here. Joe Walnes has had great success with the
XStream project as a new (simple) way of thinking about
(de)serializing XML. I think there's an opportunity to do the same
kind of thing with NetReflector (noting that there is already an
XStream .NET although I don't know what its status is.

> i agree; however, unfortunately the format of the xml that
> netreflector can parse does not lend itself well to generating
> schemas.  eg. netreflector doesn't distinguish between attributes and
> simple elements, and it uses attributes (such as type) to support
> polymorphic types.

Would it be possible to define a 'canonical' format for NetReflector
XML ? That way people could at least use a generated schema for
intellisense. I'm not suggesting that NetReflector itself validates
XML using the schema since it itself should allow something less
stringent.

> but i'm worried about the configuration
> changes that this might entail
> and how this could affect our userbase

How hard would it be to write some XSL to convert for them.? I'm not
an XSL expert so don't really know myself