Re: [Opencxx-users] future directions

[Stefan S. <se...@sy...>]

SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> Several internet browsers and other tools can process XML trees by the document object model.
> Should their implementations be adjusted and reused for OpenC++ purposes?
> How much do they have in common with "Ptrees"?

besides being a 'tree object model' they don't have anything in common.
I don't believe that XML will help us much in this context, it's just
another syntax to express trees. Semantics have to be added on top.
It has its value, but not here. (you may be interested into this on-spot
and entertaining article: http://www.venge.net/graydon/markup-abuse.html)

In what way do you think 'internet browsers' would help us ? I guess you are
referring to the ability of modern browsers to display xml directly. Well,
I provide a synopsis formatter that dumps the (synopsis) AST as an XML tree.
But that's merely a debugging / validation aid. It's not meant to be used
in the work-flow directly.

Regards,
		Stefan