[GRASS5] Re: GRASS XML

[Eric G. Miller]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:32:55AM -0500, Robert Najlis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry to bother you, but I was looking at the XML work you did for GRASS
> 5.0.  I was just wondering if this means that it is now possible to call
> GRASS 5.0 from any programming language via the XML that you wrote.  If
> this is the case, I think that is great.

Not exactly.  All that is provided is a means to query GRASS commands
for the command arguments.  You'd still need some way to dispatch the
commands, as well as deal with the GRASS session.  The commands
themselves have no way to deal with XML.  Also, several commands will
not behave well as they might require additional dialogs.  I've been
thinking about ways to deal with that, but it won't happen in 5.0.

FYI:  The original work was done by Jan Oliver-Wagner who also wrote a
python program for generating  GUI dialogs on the fly.  I only made some
small changes to the interface and fixed some related bugs.

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