[Kde-bindings] Have we all been blind?

[Richard Dale]

On Sunday 12 January 2003 4:46 am, Ashley Winters wrote:
> --- Germain Garand <germain at ebooksfrance.com> wrote:
> > Le Dimanche 12 Janvier 2003 03:24, Germain Garand a crit :
> >
> > Now, frankly, having just tried the latest version of your dumper...
> > it really
> > looks like you did the whole same job in three days ;)
>
> I suppose so!
>
> > Maybe it would make more sense to just take inspiration from their
> > DTD (or
> > adopt it entirely), and avoid the hassle of a big external
> > software...
>
> Umm... their DTD sucks. After further investigation, it's an exact
> mirror of the -fdump-t-u format. If you loaded their XML into ram,
> you'd get the same datastructure my program uses. Obscure, and
> difficult to use. We can do better. The Qt# DTD is closer to what we
> can use, if not perfect either.
I would like the dumper to be another parser in the front end of kalyptus, 
then the '-fcsharp' (rename '-fxml' ?) option can be used generate to XML 
which could be imported into other tools. Then existing the code generation 
for smoke etc doesn't have to be rewritten.

-- Richard