Microsoft Unbundles XAML Parser From Avalon Following MyXAML

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,

Rob Relyea - who's in charge of XAML at Microsoft - reports in the
latest blog story that Microsoft will unbundle the XAML parser from
Avalon.

Rob writes:

We have a bit of a mess in our processing for attributes. First, a
list of the mess, then a brief description of the fix we plan.

...

The XAML parser lives in PresentationFramework.dll, but one of the
key goals is to continue to untie it from the Avalon framework. In
version 1, we'll likely still ship it in PresentationFramework.dll,
but conceptually we are designing it as if it was in
WindowsBase.dll - it should define well factored extensions that are
based on different CLR concepts - existing concepts when possible -
new ones when necessary. TypeConverters, IList, IDictionary, etc...


More @
http://www.longhornblogs.com/rrelyea/archive/2004/10/09/5955.aspx

What's your take? Is Microsoft XAML slowly morphing into MyXAML?

- Gerald

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Gerald Bauer
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[marc_clifton2000]

Well good! It's about time they see the light. I'm surprised to
even see a post about XAML.

This comment though was particularly amusing:

"I'm not going into great detail in the description of our fix
because I'd prefer to be the first company to ship our design. :-)"

Certainly was aimed at Xamlon and bodes ill for them, if there's no
spec on what Microsoft's XAML is going to look like in the end,
don't you think?

As for MyXaml, it's a stable syntax. I don't have to deal with
property tags and what not. And MyXaml already has a single well
defined mechanism for extending attributes.

So. MS-XAML is getting unbundled from Avalon. It's about time.
Now they get to deal with the main problem that I've had--third
party vendor components aren't necessarily XAML friendly, both in
usage and in serialization. Hehe. Can't wait to see what MS is
going to do about that.

Marc





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