Glimmerized XML Namespaces Continued

While it's true that Glimmerized XML syntax can now handle namespaces, support is not complete yet as pointed out in a comment by Ed Merks, the co-architect of the Eclipse Modeling Framework.

How do you include attributes that have qualified names?

Here is how it is done in XML:

<label bundle:key="contact.firstName" >
  <text ajax:id="firstName" />
</label>

Glimmerized syntax now supports that as follows:

label(bundle.key => "contact.firstName") {
  text(ajax.id => "firstName")
}

How do you declare XML namespaces?

Using the same mechanism.

Here is an example of an XML declaration of a namespace:

<billing:price xmlns:billing="http://billing.system.biz/schema" units="CAN">47.38</billing:price>

Here is the same example written with Glimmerized syntax:

billing.price xmlns.billing=>"http://billing.system.biz/schema", units=>"CAN" {"47.38"}

Notice how attribute names do not have to be Ruby symbols anymore (e.g. units => "CAN" instead of :units => "CAN".) Ed's suggestion to drop the colon coincided with the need to support prefixes, so the syntax has been enhanced to allow qualified names, which were not possible with symbols.

Stay tuned for more on how to include simple text or mixed text in an element body.