Re: [gdome]MathML DOM implementation: I need some advise

["Pierre-Paul Delisle" <pierrep_delisle hotmail com>]

Thanks Luca,

> The good thing
> would be that it would be easy to create bindings for any other
> language, including Ocaml and C++ which means that in a few shots we
> would deliver a MathML DOM implementation (I can hardly find one that is
> free) for virtually any language.
This is the reason pushing me for the C implementation.
Later we will have just to update gmetadom (or to create a gmetammldom...)

> I think the MathML DOM can be implemented taking the DOM implementation
> as a black box. Unfortunately, because Gdome is plain C and because of
> the way the C++ binding is done, it is not easy to "extend" the DOM
> implementation as you would do in Java, so that the Document node would
> be the factory for MathML DOM elements.
This is the main risk that could push the schedule. I'm using the free time 
I have in my paternity leave...

> Were you thinking about implementing the DOM for the presentation only
> or the whole set of interfaces?
I would like to implement the whole set of interfaces.
The "world" community is missing a math editor doing both content and 
presentation. I hope, for example, that the MathML library will be used by 
the OMDOC community.

> Have you considered automatic generation
> of the code? A fair amount of methods can be generated automatically I
> think, this would reduce the code to hand-write and would make it easier
> to switch to an alternative approach if the one you try first does not
> seem to work well.
I was going to start with "copy and paste" from the Gdome code itself and 
from the MathML2 specification. Can you suggest me a tool to help me 
automatically generate most of the code?

  Pierre-Paul

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