[Cuis-dev] XML in Erudite

[Mariano Montone]

El 16/6/24 a las 11:26, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev escribió:
> You are right we need to have support for extension, or may be 
> cannibalizing existing element, i.e. programlisting, code, classname, etc.

I'm not sure what "cannibalizing" means here, a bit like "patching"?

My hope for an extensible markup language is to leverage the natural 
object systems inheritance, and that that would allow extensions in a 
clean way.

For instance, let's say we have a configurable <programlisting> node, 
with a source type, code styler, etc. Then that could be specialized for 
a particular source code language, either via class extension or 
configuration.

Also, I don't see the problem with tools support. Let's say there's a 
tool that converts from <programlisting> to other format. That same tool 
should also work with the specialized node without being touched; it 
would just ignore the specific features of the specialized node. That 
would be the "worst case", and in the best case,  it would be possible 
to also adapt that transformation tool for the specialized node to take 
into account its specific features without too much effort.

That's my impression at least.

     Mariano