good suggestion, it hadn't crossed my mind to take a similar swf and
convert it to xml to get at what i need, simple but i missed it. thanks.
Mark Winterhalder wrote:
> just another note...
>
> i really can't emphasise this enough, because imho it's a
> killer-feature that hardly anybody understands (so i'm very happy
> somebody is finally looking into this):
>
> look at swfml-s ("simple") as an example. you can use swf2xml to
> produce something like a template swfml-ll and come up with your own
> custom dialect where a single xml tag is a complex clip, even with
> action tags if you like, where some custom values get filled in. that
> means you can use some existing xml file and directly convert it to
> swf in a single step.
> say you've got an address book xml. your stylesheet would have the
> swfml-ll for a business card clip, a GUI and logic as a header, and
> the entries would get directly converted into one frame each, putting
> the business card clip onto the stage, and adding action tags that
> instantiate it with the values. just as an example. you could also be
> drawing a sales chart or whatever, with e.g. <chart type="bars"><bar
> value="..." month="..." /><bar ... />...</chart>. you get the idea.
>
> mark
>
>
> On 3/28/06, Mark Winterhalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> am
>>> i correct in my understanding that the basic profile is just another
>>> built-in xslt similar to simple.
>>>
>> as far as i understand it, no. "basic" (or "swfml-ll", for "low level"
>> as it is called now) is the mother of all swfml dialects, pretty much
>> a SWF file format representation in XML. this is what "simple"
>> ("swfml-s") is being transformed to by the built-in "simple"
>> stylesheet, and what your custom-xslt must transform your
>> custom-dialect to:
>>
>> [xml --xslt-->] [swfml-ll --swfmill--> swf]
>>
>> the second chunk is what "swfmill xml2swf" does, there's no way around
>> that part of the chain, it's swfmill's core functionality (along with
>> "swf2xml", which gives you swfml-ll as output). the first part is
>> added for convenience because swfml-ll would be very inconvenient to
>> work with for mere mortals. so "simple" is a built-in xslt for the
>> common swfml-s XML dialect which you can replace by using your custom
>> xslt with "swfmill xslt <custom-xslt> <custom-xml> <output.swf>",
>> which outputs to swfml-ll for further processing.
>>
>> hth,
>> mark
>>
>>
>> On 3/28/06, Robert Jonathan Molesa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> well, i haven't got quite that far just yet. more or less going to do
>>> some testing with the basic profile using some xml, if that works like i
>>> expect it to then i'll get into some xslt coding. just trying to
>>> determine what's required with the basic profile to compile an swf. am
>>> i correct in my understanding that the basic profile is just another
>>> built-in xslt similar to simple.
>>>
>>> Mark Winterhalder wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/27/06, Jon Molesa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Daniel or Mark,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> hmm... i'm just a user, if you roll your own xslt you know much more
>>>> than i do already... :)
>>>>
>>>> mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I've been looking over the basic profile located at
>>>>> http://iterative.org/swfmill/doc/reference.html. I'm beginning to work
>>>>> on some xslt for swfmill. The about this document mentions that it is
>>>>> organized into chapters including Actions. Is this a typo, an reference
>>>>> to an incomplete feature, or am I just missing something?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also in reference to symbols, in the brief example would button creation
>>>>> also need to be included within the <symbols> tag? I'm interested in
>>>>> see what all I can do exactly. My guess is that swfmill is a complete
>>>>> or near complete inplementation of the swf library, and that the
>>>>> documentation just doesn't show it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm going to document my progress with the xslt endevor as I mentioned a
>>>>> while back about documenting this project, but I'll need some help from
>>>>> you guys along the way. Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jon Molesa
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