(keitai-l) Re: open source keitai tools (was Re: Re: western phone, imode si

I am no XML expert by any means, in fact my knowledge is minimal, but from
my following of the discussion of WURFL on the wmlprogramming group, it
seems to me that questions of the type posed by Steven have been discussed,
so you may wish to search the archives of that group and see what they have
come up with.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wmlprogramming/messagesearch?query=wurfl

Clive.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Veltema [mailto:fish@fishyswaz.com]
Sent: 26 February 2002 05:43
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: open source keitai tools (was Re: Re: western
phone, imode si



From: "Nick May" <nick@kyushu.com>
> - <!--   *********************   -->
> - <!--     all phone fallbacks            -->
> - <!--   *********************   -->
> <device fall_back="root " id="generic">
> - <!--     generic phone    definition here (if appropriate)        -->
> </device>

From a memory/parsing pont of view I can see why "fall_back" is used, but
it's really not very elegant or XML-like.  Why not just make the devices
nestable where children inherit values from their immediate parent?

<device id="default">
    <parameter id="W">W</parameter>
    <device id="imode">
        <parameter id="X">X</parameter>
        <device id="502i>
            <parameter id="Y">Y</parameter>
            <device id="SO502i">
                <parameter id="Z">Z</parameter>
            </device>
        </device>
    </device>
</device>

The only real drawback I can see for this is that parsing it would probably
be memory intensive.  However, the XML file could be used to comple a
handler class and bunch of ResouceBundles along the lines of
java.util.Locale.

Steven Veltema



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