XAML Talk Upcoming at SVG Open 2004 In Tokyo

Hello,

  If anyone attends the SVG Open 2004 conference held in Tokyo you
might drop in on the talk titled "Targeting SVG and XAML in a Single
Application" by Philip A. Mansfield of SchemaSoft.

  The summary states:

 The XML grammar "XAML" is a declarative programming language for
directly instantiating classes from Microsoft's WinFX libraries; in
particular, the presentation framework used for user interface,
documents and drawing. XAML can be published directly as Browser
content, or compiled along with event-driven procedural code into a
client application.

The XAML elements for vector graphics and animation are closely
modelled after SVG. Furthermore, SVG deployment scenarios are similar
to XAML: SVG can be used as Browser content, or as user interface to a
Web application when accompanied by event-driven procedural code (script).

XAML and SVG will be compared with respect to their features, syntax,
deployment, connection to other languages, and usage scenarios. It
will be argued that both languages are viable under appropriate usage
scenarios, and that there are situations in which the two can co-exist.

For example, a number of applications used by graphic designers are
capable of exporting and importing SVG. These applications can be used
to specify the appearance of a graphical user interface. If that
specification can be handed off to software developers as XAML, then
it can be directly compiled into code. This streamlines workflow
between designer and implementer, while ensuring that the designer's
intent is accurately represented in code.

An advantage of SVG is that it is cross-platform, while an advantage
of XAML is that it is optimized on one platform. Therefore one might
generate content in both languages, but choose which to deliver based
on information about the receiving platform.

Thus there are situations in which it is worthwhile to export both SVG
and XAML from a single application. This problem is investigated, and
solutions are presented. It is not always best to convert directly
from SVG to XAML or vice-versa, since the features of one language are
not a proper subset of the features of the other. Instead, both SVG
and XAML can arise as the output of translations from a common source
format.

Architectures involving both languages are explored in the context of
content authoring, data-driven graphics, data-binding, adaptive
layout, collaboration, content management, and other kinds of
applications.

   More @
http://www.svgopen.org/2004/paperAbstracts/TargetingSVGandXAML.html

   - Gerald

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