[Dev] XML for CPIA

[Bryan Stearns]

I don't see why this is necessary:
- It's another syntax to learn, but who'll learn it?  Most parcel 
developers who are adding item types will mostly just be writing 
detail-view trees of blocks; I'm looking forward to rewriting the detail 
view's parcel.xml as Python, so the ready examples that developers will 
have will be Python. Few non-Python developers will be customizing other 
parts of the UI, at least in the next year or so.
- The syntax isn't better: while it might be familiar to HTML 
programmers just because it's XML, it isn't simpler or terser than the 
equivalent Python code given in the example.

(and what's with the "<ref: 22d5dbf0-0921-11da-ab3d-00054e47c157>"?)

...Bryan


Alec Flett wrote:

> Here's a very quick overview of my XmlForCpia proposal. I have already 
> implemented the parser that does all of these things, as well as a 
> tool that dumps the current block structure from a currently-running 
> chandler into XmlForCpia format (in fact that's where the same code 
> comes from)


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