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[dd3000]

I can't believe that no one has mentioned Microsoft's new xml-script that they are apparently developing in conjunction with their new AJAX related offering for ASP.NET codenamed Atlas. So the brilliant idea there is that rather than creating a single control/html tag:

    <atlas:ScriptManager runat="server" ID="scriptManager" ><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>

        <Services><o:p></o:p>

<atlas:ServiceReference Path="HelloWorldService.asmx" Type="text/javascript" /><o:p></o:p>

        </Services><o:p></o:p>

    </atlas:ScriptManager><o:p></o:p>

and a few lines of JavaScript:

    <script type="text/javascript"><o:p></o:p>

        function DoSearch()<o:p></o:p>

        {<o:p></o:p>

            var SrchElem = document.getElementById("SearchKey");<o:p></o:p>

<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Samples.AspNet.HelloWorldService.HelloWorld(SrchElem.value, OnRequestComplete);</FONT>

        }<o:p></o:p>

        function OnRequestComplete(result)<o:p></o:p>

        {<o:p></o:p>

            var RsltElem = document.getElementById("Results");<o:p></o:p>

            RsltElem.innerHTML = result;<o:p></o:p>

        }<o:p></o:p>

    </script><o:p></o:p>

I should instead create the following jumble involving twice the number of lines using this new xml-script:

    <script type="text/xml-script"><o:p></o:p>

<page xmlns:script="http://schemas.microsoft.com/xml-script/2005"><o:p></o:p>

            <references><o:p></o:p>

            </references><o:p></o:p>

            <components><o:p></o:p>

                <textBox id="SearchKey" /><o:p></o:p>

<serviceMethod id="helloService" url="HelloWorldService.asmx" methodName="HelloWorld"><o:p></o:p>

                    <bindings><o:p></o:p>

<binding dataContext="SearchKey" dataPath="text" property="parameters"<o:p></o:p>

                        propertyKey="query" /><o:p></o:p>

                    </bindings><o:p></o:p>

                    <completed><o:p></o:p>

<invokeMethod target="resultsBinding" method="evaluateIn" /><o:p></o:p>

                    </completed><o:p></o:p>

                </serviceMethod><o:p></o:p>

                <button targetElement="SearchButton"><o:p></o:p>

                    <click><o:p></o:p>

<invokeMethod target="helloService" method="invoke" /><o:p></o:p>

                    </click><o:p></o:p>

                </button><o:p></o:p>

                <label targetElement="Results"><o:p></o:p>

                    <bindings><o:p></o:p>

<binding id="resultsBinding" dataContext="helloService" <o:p></o:p>

<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>dataPath="response.object" property="text"</FONT>

automatic="false" /><o:p></o:p>

                    </bindings><o:p></o:p>

                </label><o:p></o:p>

            </components><o:p></o:p>

        </page><o:p></o:p>

    </script><o:p></o:p>

To me, the fact that it has Microsoft’s name behind it makes me really scared that this mess might actually get some momentum.

 

[Ulvhamne]

@dd3000 said:

To me, the fact that it has Microsoft’s name behind it makes me really scared that this mess might actually get some momentum.

 

Prepare yourself to have to maintain such curious perversions in information technology. ;)

[ammoQ]

x++ lets you use XSLT for refactoring ;)



Provided that no-one ever has to look at or modify the XML
representation of his program, storing it in XML might deliver some
advantages; for example it should be easy to look for a certain
language elements in a given context using standard XML tools ("show me
where variable x is used within a loop").



Anyway, even if I wanted such possibilities, I would rather write a
parser that translates my favourite languages into XML than invent a
new language.