JFCML - JFC/Swing XML Markup Language

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MRL (Markup Recipe Language)

MRL (Markup Recipe Language) 01/25/2004 08:35 PM
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FML: Fiction Markup Language

FML: Fiction Markup Language 01/16/2004 11:33 AM

When is someone going to come up with Fiction Markup Language — an XML spec solely for annotating fiction? For example:

Take perhaps the greatest novel ever written: Ian Fleming's 1953 classic "Casino Royale." Let's break this down from a big chunk of text to make up something more usable.

Obviously, you could mark the chapters and section numbers, but let's go further into the actual content of the narrative. Begin by surrounding all spoken text with tags. For example:

Perhaps you can have another attribute for "target" to identify to whom he's speaking. Then I could do an XPath query to find everything James Bond said to Vesper Lynd in the entire book.

And how about locations? Surround passages with their physical location, like the casino floor, Bond's hotel room, etc. (where appropriate — wouldn't work in all situations). I could then use XPath to find all the unique locations in the book (this would be great for the globe-hopping James Bond novels).

Identify "action" passages and mark them. How about the death of a character? Mark them so I can immediately find out where Le Chiffre was killed and read how it happened.

Introductions of characters are another thing. Mark the first appearance of each character so if I can't remember who someone is, I can go back and find where they first appeared and who they are.

I'm reading Tom Clancy's "Politika" right now, and I can hardly keep track of everyone. It'd be handy to be able to print a "report" showing who everyone is. (A good ebook client implementation of this would know what page the reader was on and not report anything past that page as to not spoil anything.)

Maybe mark the beginning and ending of pages as they appeared in the original publication. And have some way for an expert to insert commentary about the text.

James Bond novels are one thing, but imagine if someone did this for, say, "War and Peace". It would be like Cliffs Notes embedded in the text of the book.

There's unexplored potential here. I can't be the first person to think of this. (And another question: is this just an attempt to completely suck the soul right out of fiction? Should we just leave it the hell alone?)

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Hate-pertext Markup Language

Hate-pertext Markup Language 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
There are quite a few conspiracy theories flying around the Net regarding Lockergnome's most recent "White Album" redesign. Blogger reaction? Overwhelmingly negative. Gnomie reaction? Overwhelmingly positive. Bottom line? We're still working on it - as well as a billion other things. I'm not asking for slack, but jumping Jesus on a pogo stick - there are only so many hours in the day. We're doing our best here, and appreciate the constructive criticism and code suggestions. Hell, maybe we should "open source" the SOB....

ELML - eLesson Markup Language

ELML - eLesson Markup Language 03/30/2005 09:31 AM
Beta-Support of IMS Content Package

W3c Gets Behind Speech Synthesis Markup
Language

W3c Gets Behind Speech Synthesis Markup
Language 09/09/2004 02:44 PM
CRM Assist Sep 9 2004 6:27PM GMT

Annotated Gel Markup Language Project

Annotated Gel Markup Language Project 01/29/2004 03:02 PM
Research Article Published

Conflict Resolution Markup Language

Conflict Resolution Markup Language 11/07/2003 02:07 AM
Equiforum and CRML

PHP Template Markup Language (ztml)

PHP Template Markup Language (ztml) 05/08/2004 10:36 AM
First alpha version released

Recipe Exchange Markup Language

Recipe Exchange Markup Language 03/22/2005 06:23 PM
Dohh, reml-ref exe property says v0.5, but it is v0.6

Requirements for the Ink Markup Language
Published

Requirements for the Ink Markup Language
Published 01/22/2003 02:35 PM
22 January 2003: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released Requirements for the Ink Markup Language as a W3C Note. This data format represents ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus, and is used to input and process handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational languages. Read about the Multimodal Interaction Activity. (News archive)

Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML)

Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) 09/23/2004 03:18 AM
SBMLToolbox 1.0.2 Released

Ink Markup Language Working Draft
Published

Ink Markup Language Working Draft
Published 03/06/2004 01:50 AM
2004-02-23: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released a second Working Draft of the Ink Markup Language (InkML). The InkML data format is used to represent ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus. Ink-aware Web applications can process and exchange handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational languages. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page. (News archive)

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a
W3C Recommendation

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a
W3C Recommendation 09/08/2004 11:00 AM
2004-09-08: The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. With the XML-based SSML language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. "SSML builds on the work of the pioneers in speech synthesis to provide application developers with a powerful and flexible means to deliver a high quality mix of synthetic and pre-recorded speech as part of interactive voice response services," said Dave Raggett (W3C/Canon). Read the press release, testimonials and implementation report and visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive)

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Last
Call Published

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Last
Call Published 12/02/2002 07:24 PM
2 December 2002: The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language Version 1.0. Comments are welcome through 15 January 2003. With this XML-based language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch, and rate. Read about the Voice Browser Activity. (News archive)

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a
W3C Candidate Recommendation

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a
W3C Candidate Recommendation 12/18/2003 06:05 PM
2003-12-18: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language Version 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 18 February 2004. With this XML-based language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch, and rate. Read about the Voice Browser Activity. (News archive)

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a
W3C Proposed Recommendation

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a
W3C Proposed Recommendation 07/15/2004 01:32 PM
2004-07-15: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 27 August 2004. With the XML-based SSML language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. Read about the Voice Browser Activity. (News archive)

Features: Eat Drink Feel Good Markup
Language

Features: Eat Drink Feel Good Markup
Language 03/14/2005 05:44 PM
Aaron Straup Cope describes the pros and cons of making his Eatdrinkfeelgood Markup Language more RDF compatible.

Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation

Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation 12/19/2003 06:24 PM
XMLMania.com Dec 19 2003 4:20PM ET

Data Center Markup Language finds home
in OASIS

Data Center Markup Language finds home
in OASIS 08/30/2004 05:17 PM
A proposed standard to enable integration, automation and better management of data center components this week will begin development under the direction of a new standards body - the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.

Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
Version 1.0 Advances to W3C
Recommendation

Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
Version 1.0 Advances to W3C
Recommendation 09/11/2004 10:38 AM
XMLMania.com Sep 11 2004 1:48PM GMT

Magnetar Appoints Virtual Reality Markup
Language (VRML) Inventor to its Advisory
Board

Magnetar Appoints Virtual Reality Markup
Language (VRML) Inventor to its Advisory
Board 06/17/2004 11:39 AM
BC Technology Jun 17 2004 4:17PM GMT

pendulum continues to swing swing back
to the left

pendulum continues to swing swing back
to the left 06/02/2004 02:27 AM
pendulum continues to swing back to the left
Meet Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth (D-SD)

JFCML 0.9.6.1 (Default branch)

JFCML 0.9.6.1 (Default branch) 06/22/2005 02:25 AM
JFCML (JFC/Swing XML Markup Language) is an XUL and embedded scripting solution for Java. It is a markup language which supports not only AWT and Swing, but any class accessible to Java's ClassLoader. JFCML additionally offers scripting support through the Bean Scripting Framework, enabling the user to dynamically choose from most major scripting languages. JFCML also offers its own scripting solution, JFCMLScript. This is a tiny yet powerful script evalution service which is also applet-friendly. Using JFCML, the user can construct an entire Java application without writing a single line of Java.

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License: Academic Free License (AFL)

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Changes:
This version is an emergency re-release. Due to an oversight, JFCML was not being built for 1.4 compliance as documented. This problem may have affected several previous versions. In the future, JFCML will be tested using JRE version 1.4.1_01.

Hop Off And Swing

Hop Off And Swing 04/01/2005 08:32 PM
Electric New Paper Apr 2 2005 12:57AM GMT

Markup-TreeNode-1.1.0

Markup-TreeNode-1.1.0 11/12/2003 06:50 PM

Markup-Tree-1.1.0

Markup-Tree-1.1.0 11/12/2003 06:50 PM

Simple markup

Simple markup 03/11/2003 11:53 AM

Timothy Appnel: I have a new appreciation for the elegeance and simplicity of XML markup. Not that I didn't have one before its just grown the size of the Empire state building and illuminated in neon.

Obviously, I'm currently embarking on a similar mission, and share Tim's appreciation for XML.  My goals, however, are much lower than Tim's: I'm not trying to create a full markup language.  I'm applying 80/20 whenever I can: e.g., unordered lists are enough.  The times when full functionality is required, I'll  personally use full XHTML.

I'm currently looking into textile for inspiration.

Markup in titles in RSS?

Markup in titles in RSS? 12/13/2003 08:14 AM

The RSS 2.0 spec and its predecessors may not say clearly enough if you can or can't include markup in titles. But I don't think you should include markup in titles. Titles are like file names (not exactly of course). They are a happy medium between software and people. Both must be able to read them and make sense of them, in all contexts, and do so easily. While it seems reasonable that a description may contain markup, it also seems reasonable that a title should not. So, if I were writing a validator for RSS, and encountered markup in a title, I'd warn the author that many processors would not be happy about this and it would be safer to strip the markup from the title.

Disclaimer: Scripting News is a weblog, not a spec. If you interpret it as a spec you will be making a mistake. I think I've said this quite a few times, but a few people still treat it as if I were writing a spec here. Not so. And not fair.

A postscript. I went back to see what the spec actually says, and it turns out it's not really a problem with the spec, rather with my recollection of what the spec says. Scroll to elem ents of item. It says descriptions may contain entity-encoded HTML. It doesn't say that a title may. So if that's the biggest problem people can find with the spec (which many were flaming about when I wrote it, it's not like they offered any help, btw) then it's a pretty damned good spec if you ask me.

Q: Markup format?

Q: Markup format? 03/14/2005 05:10 PM

Q: Which markup format do you use when posting?

Both Textile and Markdown are installed and I flip between them. When I want to post a lot of code without hassle I'll use Markdown because it seems smarter about that kind of thing. Most of the time, however, I want to just write so I'll use Textile; I find that it's a quick and mildly-intuitive way to access the various classes in my stylesheet for the myriad of things I do within this little block of space. Each has a purpose, so each gets used. I rarely enter raw HTML, and when I do it's typically to get around something broken in either markup format.

Et toi?

This entry was in Textile, for those keeping score. It is much easier to enter p(ps). or p(note). rather than <p class="ps"> or <p class="note">.

XAML and... Swing

XAML and... Swing 12/30/2003 01:17 AM

Let's see. There's this new language+API. It is, in theory platform independent. It's pretty high level. Below the high-level description, it runs on top of a virtual machine. It's verbose. Some people say it will never work.

Gotta be Swing, right?

How about XAML?

On Saturday Sam commented on a XAML example. He makes a number of good points. Which jump-started earlier XAML-related musings.

XAML will be Windows-only, so in that sense the comparison is stretched. But this is a matter of practice, in theory an XML-based language could be made portable (when there's a will there's a way). XAML was compared a lot to Mozilla's XUL, and rightly so, but I think there are some parallels between it and Swing as well.

One big difference that XAML will have, for sure, is that it will have a nice UI designer, something that Swing still lacks. On the other hand, I think that whatever code an automated designer generates will be horribly bloated. And who will be able to write XAML by hand? And: the problem of "bytecode protection" in Java comes back with XAML, but with a vengeance. How will the code be protected? Obfuscation of XML code? Really? How would it be validated then? And why hasn't anyone talked about this.

And another thing: Sun has shown in the past few years that they've taken a liking to countering Microsoft announcements with some of their own. ie., MS comes out with Web services, they come out with web services. MS does X, Sun does it too, but in Java. One wish: that Sun would ignore XAML and just continue improving Swing, and create a simple, good UI designer for Swing. Supposedly Project Rave will do this... but here's hoping there won't be any course corrections simply to show up Microsoft. Please, pretty please, Sun.

On a related note, Robert says this regarding XAML:

[...] you will see some business build two sites: one in HTML and one in XAML. Why? Because they'll be able to offer their customers experiences that are impossible to deliver in HTML.

Come on, Robert, these days, when everyone's resources are stretched to the limit, when CIOs want to squeeze every possible drop of code from their people, when everyone works 60-hour weeks as a matter of common practice, are you seriously saying that companies will have two teams to develop a single website? Is this Microsoft's selling point? "Here, just retrain all of your people, and double the size and expense of your development team, and you'll be fine."

Of course not. Most companies will have one team, not two. Hence, logically, either people will use it or won't, without a lot of middle ground in between. That leaves two possibilities: 1) XAML will be niche and never really used a lot (think ActiveX, or, hey, even Java Applets!) or 2) XAML will kill HTML.

Which one do you think Microsoft is betting on?

Weird Swing Bug

Weird Swing Bug 06/22/2004 11:54 PM
We ran into a weird issue with Swing today at work. The small class below reproduces this. 1 import javax.swing.*; 2 import javax.swing.event.TreeModelEvent; 3 import javax.swing.event.TreeModelListener; 4 import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode; 5 import javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel; 6 7 public class Blah extends JFrame implements TreeModelListener { 8 9 private JTree tree; 10 11 public Blah() { 12 setSize(150, 150); 13 setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); 14 DefaultMutableTreeNode root... (294 words)

swt and swing, cont'd.

swt and swing, cont'd. 01/06/2004 08:01 AM

Yesterday Russ was ranting (his term :)) on how Sun was botching it by not getting behind SWT, because SWT is, in his view, better than Swing. I have written about both a few times before, more recently in this short review of my initial impressions of developing with SWT, and earlier here , here and here among others. Specifically on what Russ is saying I had a couple of things to add. One is that, although I'm obviously partial on this :), I think that clevercactus shows that Swing interfaces need not feel out of place, or be slow, or whatever. And I think it looks better than LimeWire too :). IDEA is also a fine example IMO. However, it's true that all of that is subjective and that for hard-core Windows users there are small differences. For power users in particular the differences might indeed be difficult to accept. The situation is much better in other platforms though.

That aside, there is the other matter that Russ mentions, that of Sun not joining the Eclipse consortium. The main reason given for this is that, for all its platform appeal Eclipse is still, at heart, an IDE toolkit. If you doubt that's true, spend some time perusing the Eclipse APIs, and you'll notice how many times you have to use components from within the IDE package rather than "platform" packages (e.g., "org.eclipse.swt"). Restated, what I mean is that the boundaries between platform and IDE APIs are not clear at all, and I guess that some people would say that's precisely the point, Eclipse is both an IDE and a platform, and that's fine. Fine indeed, but what does that matter? Well, keep in mind that Sun has NetBeans to take care of. With its own community, and plugins, and additional tools, and so on. Were Sun to ditch NetBeans in favor of Eclipse as a platform, they would have to a) port all sorts of plugins and code to the new platform, not to mention "convert" their community, both of open source developers and third party developers, to Eclipse. This is by no means impossible, but it's not easy either.

Then there is the small matter of SWT. If Sun joined Eclipse, SWT would have to be included in the JDK would it not? Sun would have to maintain and release simultaneously three different windowing toolkits for each release: AWT, Swing, and SWT. That doesn't sound good either. And while I like some things of SWT, ditching Swing completely is to me not an option.

Why?

First, Swing does run on every single platform that the full JDK runs on. For example, some users today are running clevercactus on OS/2. That would be impossible if cc were written in SWT.

Second, Swing is, for all its complexity (or perhaps because of it) and incredibly rich and flexible toolkit. Much more so than SWT. Surely this will change as SWT evolves, but that's the reality at the moment. With SWT you are forced to write custom components more often than with Swing, as I discovered when I worked for about a week replicating the clevercactus UI using SWT.

And, finally (although this is a small matter compared to the two above), SWT still requires release of resources "by hand". I find this a horrible step back. Moreover, debugging becomes more difficult. Something might fail not just on your java code, not just on the SWT-to-Native code (say, if you're running it on Windows), but something might also fail at the Native component level. Suddenly bugs have to be tracked on three levels. SWT will be buggy for a while, particularly on non-Win32 platforms (Win32 support is pretty good). And Native errors are very difficult to pin down.

Please note, these are not reasons why "Swing is better than SWT" but reasons why I think Swing can't be discarded at the moment and for some time to come. And that puts Sun in a difficult position.

Ideally, yes, Sun would join Eclipse, ditch AWT in favor of SWT keeping the latter as an alternative to Swing, plus using something like the SWTSwing project to bridge between both worlds. But for the moment, staying out of Eclipse might have been a good choice by Sun to avoid creating even more confusion.

Swing State

Swing State 06/22/2004 03:38 PM
In the swing states, it's not just the economy anymore, stupid. "The more you talk to West Virginians, the more you stop wondering how Democrats lost the state four years ago and start wondering how they ever won it."

Serenity through markup (ADTmag.com)

Serenity through markup (ADTmag.com) 10/02/2002 10:55 AM

Keep 'em separated: Layout and markup.

Keep 'em separated: Layout and markup. 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
So, my idea was to follow the nice development models that often exist at a platform level in UI architecture and apply them to the view components of a design pattern - particularly with an focus on extensibility. But I...

W3C Markup Validator Upgraded

W3C Markup Validator Upgraded 05/06/2004 09:47 PM
2004-05-06: W3C is pleased to announce an upgrade to the W3C Markup Validation Service. The new release is easier to use and install. It features new documentation and navigation, and offers helpful explanations and recovery mechanisms instead of fatal errors. Managed by a team of volunteers and the W3C Quality Assurance Activity, and supported by a large community, this validator is the single most popular resource on the W3C Web site. Read the announcement. (News archive)

A myriad of markup systems

A myriad of markup systems 04/12/2004 11:15 PM

It's hard to avoid the legions of custom markup systems out there these days. Every Wiki has it's own syntactical quirks, while packages like Markdown, Textile, BBCode (in dozens of variants), reStructuredText offer easy ways of hooking markup conversion in to existing applications. When it comes to being totally over-implemented and infuratingly inconsistent, markup systems are rapidly catching up with template packages. Never one to miss out on an opportunity to reinvent the wheel, I've worked on several of each ;)

My most recent markup handling attempt has just been published as part of my SitePoint article on Bookmarklets (cl iché). It's a structured markup language in a bookmarklet: activate the bookmarklet to convert the text in any textarea on a page to XHTML. The syntax is ridiculously simple, and serves my limited needs just fine:

= This is a header

Here is a paragraph.

* This is a list of items
* Another item in the list

Converts to:

<h4>This is a header</h4>

<p>Here is a paragraph.</p>

<ul>
 <li>This is a list of items</li>
 <li>Another item in the list</li>
</ul>

The algorithm is simple, and easily portable to any language you care to mention:

1. Normalise newlines to \n, for cross-platform consistency.
2. Split the text up on double newlines, to create a list of blocks.
3. For each block:
   1. If it starts with an equals sign, wrap it in header tags.
   2. If it starts with an asterisk, split it in to lines, make each a list item (stripping off the asterisk at the start of the line if required) and glue them all together inside a <ul>.
   3. Otherwise, wrap it in a <p> tag provided it doesn't have one already.
4. Glue everything back together again with a couple of newlines, to make the underlying XHTML look pretty.

The bookmarklet comes in two flavours: Expand HTML Shorthand (the full version) and Expand HTML Shorthand IE, which loses header support in order to fit within IE's rippling 508 character limit. A more capable bookmarklet could be built using the import-script-stub method described in my article, but the implementation of such a thing is left as an exercise for the reader (I've always wanted to say that).

Incidentally, there's a very common bug in markup systems that allow inline styles that proves extremely difficult to fix: that of improperly nested tags. Say you have a system where *text* is bold and _text_ is italic; what happens when the user enters _italic*italic-bold_bold*? Most systems (and that includes Markdown, Textile and my home-rolled Python solution) use naive regular expressions for inline markup processing and will output vadly formed XHTML: <em>italic<strong>italic-bold</em>bold </strong>. To truly solve this problem requires a context-sensitive parser, which involves an unpleasantly large amount of effort to solve what looks like a simple bug.

Swing and a Miss for Asteroid

Swing and a Miss for Asteroid 08/28/2004 06:11 AM
Wired News Aug 28 2004 9:42AM GMT

Opponents Take Swing at GMO Grass

Opponents Take Swing at GMO Grass 04/10/2004 05:10 AM
Lawn-products company Scotts is testing a bioengineered version of a creeping grass favored by golf courses. The company claims the Roundup-resistant grass is unlikely to spread, but a surprising assortment of challengers disagree.
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JFCML - JFC/Swing XML Markup Language