On 26/09/2007, at 9:57 AM, Chris Farnham wrote:
> Do other people feel the same way I do?
> If so, can Cayenne better support both modes of use?
Sure.
> I would like to see documentation and examples that are XML descriptor
> centric as well as GUI centric.
I think that would be useful to a number of people.
> I also think that it'd be an interesting project to look at the
> current
> XML syntax and make it a little more user/text-editor friendly. I
> have
> no concrete ideas on this latter point but I've been playing around
> with
> DSLs in other areas and it might be neat to either streamline
> Cayenne's
> XML syntax or create a DSL. Either of these could be transformed into
> the current XML syntax.
The advantage of XML is that there are any number of ways to author
the content.
> I only raise this issue because I've enjoyed using Cayenne and would
> like to see it improve.
Such a thing would probably help other people and improve the
usability of Cayenne. Perhaps you'd like to start a page here:
Eventually this could be merged into the main documentation.
Ari Maniatis
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