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Don Box – feelings for XML

I always enjoy understanding Don’s perspectives. This InfoQ interview is interesting as always. Touches on SOAP, XML, XML Schema, M, etc…

InfoQ: Don Box Discusses SOAP, XML, REST and M

Is XML as bad as Don is saying to you?

We can explore other ways to write down the XAML data model (O-M-V + TypeInfo)… John Gossman prototyped JAML (John’s Application Markup Language) the other week with .NET 4’s XAML stack.

if XML isn’t the right thing, we are not stuck with XML…

Published Friday, February 05, 2010 8:22 AM by Rob_Relyea
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# re: Don Box – feelings for XML@ Friday, February 05, 2010 11:34 AM

XML == Bad

I've pondered several times creating my own DSL for WPF/Silverlight.  The problem is that it would be useless without tool support in both VS and Blend.  No one would use it.  So, until Blend and VS have extensibility points that let me easily plug-in my own DSL engine so that existing tooling can read and *write* in my DSL, then there's no point in wasting time.

by Rob

# re: Don Box – feelings for XML@ Friday, February 05, 2010 11:44 AM

@Rob-

Yes, to have full ecosystem support, Blend and VS would need to support arbitrary textual representations of XAML (via System.Xaml.XamlReader implementation, likely).

Challenge there is to support text code preservation with arbitrary text formats...

It gets harder.

But I would love to understand right direction in this space...

@all-

See some recent discussion about XML vs DSLs here:

channel9.msdn.com/.../519047-M-language-to-replace-Xaml

Thanks, Rob

by Rob_Relyea

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