[GRASS5] XML fun with --interface-description's...

[Eric G. Miller]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 08:25:01PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 10:45:27AM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > I'm open to suggestions.  Maybe little icons for each of "type",
> > "required", and "multiple"?  
> 
> Nah, icons are hard to understand. Maybe colors.

Okay, I'm not big on icons either.  They're rarely intuitive.

> Some table and color options probably help.
> I know that XSLT and XPATH are well complicated. 
> That is why I am still not sure if they are under- or overrated in
> the public eye.

Okay, I've updated to use tables.  Finally I found a way to
conditionally separate "flags" vs. parameters with arguments.  I kept
having problems with order dependencies... <*sigh*>.  I'm in total
agreement about all this XML stuff being way overrated.  It'll be useful
in some contexts, but just look how badly something like gnumeric
performs with large spreadsheets.  XML wants to be able to load
everything into memory for parsing, but what if your "document" is
256MB?  Perhaps the libraries will get better about this...

Anyway, have a look at the new output (baby blue and light grey
colorings...).

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>