XML integration

[revolution at knowledgeworks.plus.com]

Hi Richard,

No it is not Mark that has a bee in his bonnet about XML, it is me :-)

The diff program I am using sees Rev stacks as binary files.  All it can tell me is that two binary files are indeed different; it can't show me where they differ.

This is one reason why I would like to be able to convert stacks into text.  

I'm also very interested in being able to convert XML back into stacks.  It would effectively mean that one could externalize all the content of a stack.  Say one decided to change the language in which an app was distributed - all the relevant terms would be there in clear text and could be easily extracted, translated, replaced, and then the XML re-converted back to a stack ready for building.  Heck, maybe even the building of the executable could be automated as part of this process.

It could also open up development to other environments.  Any tool that could edit or emit XML could also be a source for a Rev application.

That Geoff has done the foundation of this for Rev 1.1.1 shows it is doable.  I am surprised that Runrev didn't take this up and run with it.

Or am I way off beam in seeing the potential in this?

Regards,
Bernard