[Glade-devel] Glade Catalog XML Sytax?

[Tristan Van Berkom]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Randall Sawyer <srandallsawyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> With all due respect...

Sure, please address the mailing list in the future (I added it on CC).

>
> I feel as if I have been invited to my friend's house for supper...
> However, before we can eat, I must first assist in washing the dirty dishes,
> that we may have something upon which to suitably eat: Here.
>
> I am willing and able to edit and update any and/or all of the GLADE code to
> reflect a well-formed XML format by which validation and supporting
> documentation (http://developer.gnome.org/gladeui/stable/catalogintro.html)
> makes sense.  [FYI: An element is a concrete nounable, while an attribute is
> an abstract nounable;  neither is a '_TAG_'.]

If having a well formed DTD for Glade's catalog format is important to you,
then you are indeed the first one it has ever been important for.

By all means feel free to submit patches to the documentation (thankfully
you are proof that at least one person has actually read documentation),
and feel free to write a proper DTD for that.

>
> Otherwise (or including), I am willing to compose a
> GLIB->GTYPE->GOBJECT->GTKOBJECT->GTKWIDGET xml syntax from scratch.  My only
> motivation is to contribute to SOUND code:  I.e., I have no personal
> judgements upon your person-hoods.  GLADE rings - Now, let it Sing!  (Or not
> - in which case, I will Sing solo.)

I'm not sure what you mean by this xml syntax (GLIB->GTYPE->GOBJECT...
???), the official output
of Glade is the format recognized by GtkBuilder:
   http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkBuilder.html

Don't get that confused with the xml format used to introduce support
for your widgets in
Glade, that xml format is what we use to add widgets to Glade's
palette and load code
from Glade's runtime plugins (the documentation described in
   http://developer.gnome.org/gladeui/stable/catalogintro.html
is the documentation for augmenting Glade's experience with additional
widgets and
additional user-provided widget editors).

Cheers,
    -Tristan

> Yours,
> Randall
>
> P.S. (to mpalczew):
> I am local.  I live in Seattle.
>