Re: [WebDNA] XML Syntax
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2012
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = > I'm just curious, so an informal survey...>=20> How many are using the new XML syntax, vs classic WebDNA tags?> Reasons you picked one or the other?Hi FrankI had a client a few years ago that was adamant that he should be able =to edit all his files with dreamweaver (DW) (or I forget what wysiwyg =editor) after I was done coding them. I did not want to spend my time =testing which all webdna code would break with DW, nor spend my time =figuring out how to prevent such breaking (from the side of DW)... so I =designed the files to use very minimal amounts of the "XML syntax" =webdna - primarily just includes.. which then included all the real =webdna code I had written with square bracket style. Well this project =revealed some bugs in "XML syntax" webdna - enough that "XML syntax" =webdna was subsequently deprecated. I am pretty confident from that =experience that almost no one is really using much of "XML syntax" =webdna. If there were active developers using that syntax, then for =sure we would hearing from them here, with complaints of bugs.-Govinda=
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> I'm just curious, so an informal survey...>=20> How many are using the new XML syntax, vs classic WebDNA tags?> Reasons you picked one or the other?Hi FrankI had a client a few years ago that was adamant that he should be able =to edit all his files with dreamweaver (DW) (or I forget what wysiwyg =editor) after I was done coding them. I did not want to spend my time =testing which all webdna code would break with DW, nor spend my time =figuring out how to prevent such breaking (from the side of DW)... so I =designed the files to use very minimal amounts of the "XML syntax" =webdna - primarily just includes.. which then included all the real =webdna code I had written with square bracket style. Well this project =revealed some bugs in "XML syntax" webdna - enough that "XML syntax" =webdna was subsequently deprecated. I am pretty confident from that =experience that almost no one is really using much of "XML syntax" =webdna. If there were active developers using that syntax, then for =sure we would hearing from them here, with complaints of bugs.-Govinda=
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