Re: Menu (Was: Re: Unimplemented AppKit classes)

[Helge Hess]

Nicola Pero wrote:
> If it has not the '#', it's a standard attribute and it's processed by the
> tag as usual.
>
> I used '#' because it was remining me of
..
>   Go up the page to the <a href="#index">index</a>.
>  </body>
> </html>
>
> but probably any other syntax would have been good as well.

BTW: We are using XML namespaces for this. This has the advantage that 
the processing is already done by the XML parser (and it can be 
validated using XML-schema).
It's also quite flexible since you can attach multiple semantics to a 
tag, eg:
  <button js:action="doIt()"/>
  <button objc:action="doIt:"/>
  <button notification:action="NSDoIt"/>
etc. (we use it to attach different WOAssociation subclasses to a WO 
binding)

And even better: in case the format is used by multiple implementations 
having different capabilities, they can be used together, eg

  <button js:action="doIt()" objc:action="doIt:"/>

not a really good example, but this way the processor would take the 
"action" which is best suited for the environment (eg if the host has no 
JavaScript, it would take the objc: action).

Greetings
  Helge