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Glade-Perl source code generator

A collection of modules that will read a <GTK-Interface> XML file produced by the Gtk+/Gnome UI builder Glade (versions <= 0.6.4), construct and optionally show the UI using the Gtk-Perl bindings. It is possible, using Glade, for you to specify a language of 'Perl' and generate source code from Glade's 'Build' button.

Glade-Perl can write the perl modules to construct/run the UI together with a skeleton "App" and a working subclass for you to edit. The modules generated are pretty much OO code and can be combined and split in any way that you wish.

Glade-Perl will generate code to construct all the widgets that Glade knows about apart from the GnomeDb ones. However, the gnome-libs are not necessary and you can work quite happily without them - but of course you cannot then use the Gnome widgets in your UI.

You can read the online documentation or download Glade-Perl and find software that we depend on.

Glade-Perl is still beta software so please don't use it to generate code to control heart-lung machines or manned space missions.

Glade-Perl-Two source code generator for glade-2 files

A collection of modules that will read a <glade-interface> XML file produced by the Gtk+/Gnome UI builder Glade-2 (versions >= 1.1.0), construct and optionally show the UI using the Gtk-Perl bindings. It should be possible, using Glade-2 from version 1.1.4, for you to specify a language of 'Perl' and generate source code from Glade's 'Build' button.

Glade-Perl-Two can write the perl modules to construct/run the UI together with a skeleton "App" and a working subclass for you to edit. The modules generated are pretty much OO code and can be combined and split in any way that you wish.

Glade-Perl-Two will generate code to construct all the widgets that Glade-2 knows about apart from the Gnome and GnomeDb ones.

You can read the online documentation or download Glade-Perl-Two and find software that we depend on.

Glade-Perl is still beta software so please don't use it to generate code to control heart-lung machines or manned space missions.

XML-DTD generator

This is a little script that generates a very lax External DTD subset from a file of XML. If the XML file contains all the possible elements and attributes it will generate a DTD structure that will parse the file.

I apologise to XML gurus - I know that this is the 'wrong way round' to build a DTD and the script probably doesn't even generate correct code. It will probably generate wierdness from non-ascii (eg Latin1) XML and it ignores any existing DTD subsets that are specified (internal or external).

The script uses perl modules XML::Parser and XML::Grove (available from CPAN).

It is not a very good script, please send me fixes if you think that it is worth fixing. Download file XML-DTD (4kb)