{"id":203,"date":"2003-11-04T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=110"},"modified":"2003-11-04T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T22:12:00","slug":"what-is-xaml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2003\/11\/what-is-xaml\/","title":{"rendered":"What is XAML?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don Box\nresponds<\/a>\nto Jon Udell regarding XAML. He writes;<\/p>\n\n

\nXAML is just an XML-based way to wire up CLR types – no more no less.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

That’s not how XAML comes off at all. In the examples, there are\nnames such as “TextPanel” and “Heading” in the XAML namespace; those\naren’t the sort of things I’d expect in a binding language.<\/p>\n\n

But if the examples are just misleading, and Don’s statement\nis taken at face value, what XAML would actually be aiming to replace\nisn’t HTML\/CSS, it’s RDF\/RDF-Schema;<\/p>\n\n

\n
\n<Object def:Class=\"MyClass\" \/>\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
is essentially equivalent to;<\/p>\n\n
\n
\n<my:MyClass>\n  <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Resource\"\/>\n<\/my:MyClass>\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
Hmm.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don Box responds to Jon Udell regarding XAML. He writes; XAML is just an XML-based way to wire up CLR types – no more no less. That’s not how XAML comes off at all. In the examples, there are names such as “TextPanel” and “Heading” in the XAML namespace; those aren’t the sort of things […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}