Rev and XML

[Geoff Canyon]

I wrote a stack called mcRipper that converts a stack to XML. As I 
recall, it converts just about everything (scripts included). It also 
had the ability to create a stack from XML.

It's been a looong time since I wrote it. It hasn't been tested with 
2.0, but feel free to be the first! (work on a copy)

Here's the download page:

http://www.inspiredlogic.com/downloads.html

On Sunday, June 15, 2003, at 07:00  PM, 
revolution at knowledgeworks.plus.com wrote:

>
> Looking at treeView.rev it looks as though a stack can be traversed 
> and rendered into an XML
> tree.
>
> Using vers. 2.01 this sample stack also seems to be faulty - when 
> loaded it has a default xml
> document that is located in drive "S:\....", clicking on the top right 
> button marked with a
> question mark does not do anything (I was expecting some 
> instructions), and clicking on any
> of the stacks produces an error ("xml err, bad document id").  I even 
> had a look through the
> script in the stack but could not find anything that sugggested its 
> purpose.  In fact, it looks
> like it was written by another company ("the Attainment Company") and 
> included with Rev without
> proper integration or clarification.  (I'm not moaning - I'm imagining 
> what someone reviewing Rev
> 2.01 might say!)
>
> These problems aside:  am I right in thinking that a stack can now be 
> converted into XML?
> How far does this conversion go?  (I tested it and the contents of 
> fields are converted, and
> button design elements e.g. location are converted, but scripts seem 
> to not be converted.
> Could a stack be written as XML and then transformed using XSL into a 
> Rev stack?
>
> Is there some overview explanation of the purpose of XML in relation 
> to Rev?  I've searched
> the docs and all I found was references to each specific 'revXML...' 
> command.  A Google
> search of this list for "xmltree-view" did not provide anything useful 
> either.
>
> Regards,
> Bernard
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regards,

Geoff Canyon
gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com