this looks very promising,<br>is this only a java thing, or is there a port of it to something else (such as PHP or javascript)<br>would be very useful for combining this with ajax and json I think<br>thanks,<br>Jim<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM, David Haslam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:d.haslam@ukonline.co.uk">d.haslam@ukonline.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I just discovered this - which may be of interest to us for making XML files<br>
from other file formats.<br>
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<a href="http://www.brics.dk/xsugar/" target="_blank">http://www.brics.dk/xsugar/</a> XSugar - dual syntax for XML languages<br>
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XML is successful as a machine processable data interchange format, but it<br>
is often too verbose for human use. For this reason, many XML languages<br>
permit an alternative more legible non-XML syntax. XSLT stylesheets are<br>
often used to convert from the XML syntax to the alternative syntax;<br>
however, such transformations are not reversible since no general tool<br>
exists to automatically parse the alternative syntax back into XML.<br>
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XSugar makes it possible to manage dual syntax for XML languages. An XSugar<br>
specification is built around a context-free grammar that unifies the two<br>
syntaxes of a language. Given such a specification, the XSugar tool can<br>
translate from alternative syntax to XML and vice versa. Moreover, the tool<br>
statically checks that the transformations are reversible (i.e.<br>
bidirectional) and that all XML documents generated from the alternative<br>
syntax are valid according to a given XML schema.<br>
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-- David<br>
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