[x3d-public] [x3dom-users] Nodes for V4

[Andreas Plesch]

DEF/USE looks nice. It would require special treatment of nodes DEF/USE by
Macro, and perhaps avoiding registration of the nodes element. It may work.
Andreas

On Sep 2, 2016 12:32 AM, "Leonard Daly" <web3d at realism.com> wrote:

> See below...
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Leonard Daly <web3d at realism.com> wrote:
>
>> On 8/26/2016 7:39 PM, Leonard Daly wrote:
>>
>> For the last year I have been working on advancing X3D to be standardized
>> in HTML5/DOM environment and support mobile and VR. I have just completed
>> alpha work on the Macro node. This node provides the static definition
>> capabilities of PROTO in an HTML5 environment. It can perform string
>> substitution (name/value pairs) on X3D code stored externally. The node
>> documentation is at http://tools.realism.com/speci
>> fication/x3d-v40/abstract-specification/changes-additions-x3d-v33/macro.
>>
>> I will continue to get to at least alpha stage (basic functional
>> implemented and working) for all nodes I discussed during my presentations
>> at Web3D2016 & SIGGRAPH. The presentation is online at
>> http://realism.com/presentations/188?title=Extending-X3DOM-to-Mobile.
>>
>> All of the code is up on Github at https://github.com/DrX3D/x3dv4 with
>> testing code.
>>
>> I am interested in any bugs that are found or new/revised direction for
>> the nodes. I am completely open to anyone who would like to help code.
>>
>> I understand how the external reference to a macro template works since
> for each instance of the macro it is possible to reference the same url,
> and therefore template. How do you envision, on the other hand, use of the
> nodes field as the other option where the template is provided as child
> nodes ? Repeating the template for each instance would not make a lot of
> sense. Is there something you had in mind ?
>
>
> I was thinking DEF/USE. USE works in X3DOM by referencing the node
> sub-tree defined by DEF. Something like:
>
> <Macro params='"n1=v1","n2=v2"'>
>     <nodes DEF='Macro1Nodes'>
>         <transform ...>
>                 ...
>         </transform>
>     </nodes>
> </Macro>
>     :
>     :
> <Macro params='"n1=va","n2=vb"'>
>     <nodes USE='Macro1Nodes'></nodes>
> </Macro>
>
>
>
> --
> *Leonard Daly*
> X3D Co-Chair
> Cloud Consultant
> President, Daly Realism - *Creating the Future*
>
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