XAML Talk Upcoming at SVG Open 2004 In Tokyo

Hello,

  If anyone attends the SVG Open 2004 conference held in Tokyo you
might drop in on the talk titled "Targeting SVG and XAML in a Single
Application" by Philip A. Mansfield of SchemaSoft.

  The summary states:

 The XML grammar "XAML" is a declarative programming language for
directly instantiating classes from Microsoft's WinFX libraries; in
particular, the presentation framework used for user interface,
documents and drawing. XAML can be published directly as Browser
content, or compiled along with event-driven procedural code into a
client application.

The XAML elements for vector graphics and animation are closely
modelled after SVG. Furthermore, SVG deployment scenarios are similar
to XAML: SVG can be used as Browser content, or as user interface to a
Web application when accompanied by event-driven procedural code (script).

XAML and SVG will be compared with respect to their features, syntax,
deployment, connection to other languages, and usage scenarios. It
will be argued that both languages are viable under appropriate usage
scenarios, and that there are situations in which the two can co-exist.

For example, a number of applications used by graphic designers are
capable of exporting and importing SVG. These applications can be used
to specify the appearance of a graphical user interface. If that
specification can be handed off to software developers as XAML, then
it can be directly compiled into code. This streamlines workflow