Re: Action Sheets, stylesheets, and MVC

Peter Murray-Rust (peter@ursus.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 10 Jul 1998 07:48:52


At 18:04 09/07/98 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>It occurred to me the other day that an XML document, a stylesheet
>for rendering it, and an Action Sheet for responding to events
>associated with it, represent an instance of the well-known
>Model-View-Controller paradigm.

This sounds like a brilliant idea.

As is also well-known the JFC (SwingSet) is based on MVC. I have used Swing
to build JUMBO2. (I can't say I find it easy, because there are a zillion
classes, but I accept it's 'right' :-)
>
>There's a paper here somewhere.

There might also be an XML-DEV virtual activity where we remove part of the
algorithm and part of the data from the conventional program and
externalise them. I am very keen to represent behaviour ('actions') in XML
files rather than hardcoded. But it needs someone cleverer than me :-)

P.

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