Re: gEDA-user: Driving the netlist from PCB (instead of gschem)

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 19:03 +0200, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
> [I'm not really a big XML fan, FWIW]
> 
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:43 PM, DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "industry support" for xml is like "industry support" for zip files.
> > It's not the syntax that's important, it's the data structure within
> > it.  Just because we're using XML does NOT mean that other XML-aware
> > programs can understand it.
> 
> If schematics were just a blob of XML, they could specify an XSLT
> stylesheet for web browsers to use.  You could then publish your
> schematics as plain static files, and the XSLT magic in browsers that
> understand that could transform the schematic into pretty trees,
> perhaps even decorate the branches and leaves with javascript stuff
> that would let you interact with a schematic, over the web.

I've coded a web-app using XSLT before now, and can honestly say I would
rather write _scheme_ than write XSLT again.

Scheme for goodness sake!! ;)
-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

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