Re: [avrdude-dev] Re: Avrdude GUI and Avr Studio Plugin

[uracolix]

Am Dienstag, 11. Mai 2010 20:43:40 schrieb Weddington, Eric:
> > As Weddington, Eric wrote:
> > > > TinyXML++ at a glance looks like it might do the trick.
> > >
> > > That's good to know. :-) Thanks for the recommendation.
> >
> > Alas, it looks like it's C++ (only).  That would mean to convert
> > AVRDUDE into C++.  Not a bad thing as such (it would allow to
> > implement a lot of things much cleaner), but another truckload of
> > work.
>
> Bummer. We don't need another truckload of work.

From my experience with XML it is a long way to go from the idea 
"Yeah, we use XML" until a clean and working XSD and a set of 
reliable style sheets. I mean, when it works, it is pretty generic, 
thats for sure.

Before avrdude is linked with some XML library (which could also add plattform 
issues as I saw in another project) I would suggest a basic step to convert a 
XML file to the current avrdude.conf (e.g. generating avrdude.conf from 
a "golden" XML Source file). 

Cheers, Axel

PS: Sometimes there is also the insight that XML does not help at all, 
in uracoli I replaced the cool and stylish XSL transorm for *.aps file 
generation by a simple text pattern approach, because people don't need to 
extra install the XML package.