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More info: http://groovy.codehaus.org/markup.html

-- ArjanB - 08 Jan 2004

Erik Meijer using declaritive XML markup for GUIs inside a program and using declaritive XML markup for arbitrary types

public class Contact {
  sequence {
    string Name;
    string? Email;
  }
}

public class Test {
  static void Main() {
    Contacts cs = <Contacts> 
                    <Contact>
                      <Name>Erik Meijer</Name>
                      <Email>{"emeijer"
                              +"@"+
                             "microsoft.com"}
                      </Email>
                    </Contact>
                    <Contact>
                      <Name>Dare Obasanjo</Name>
                    </Contact>
                  </Contacts>;
...
  }
}

I like the idea of a language that understands xml and can express and check types for it. But imho xml literals are just ugly. Humans should not have to grok XML

Though most things(like gui's) could be written in some xml format, it's better to have some syntax that's more general and easier to read.

-- ArjanB - 09 Jan 2004