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TN0011 All about version numbers
TN0012 wxWindows platform, toolkit and library names
TN0013 how to make a wxGTK distribution
+TN0014 XRC resources format specification
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+ XRC resources format specification
+ ==================================
+
+ !!!!! NOT YET FINISHED !!!!!
+
+0. Introduction
+---------------
+
+This note describes the file format used for storing XRC resources that are
+used by wxXmlResource class. It is probably only useful for those implementing
+dialog editors with XRC support.
+
+If you only want to use the resources, you can choose from a number of editors:
+ a) wxDesigner (http://www.roebling.de)
+ b) XRCed (wxPython/tools)
+ c) wxWorkshop (http://wxworkshop.sf.net)
+ b) wxrcedit (contrib/utils/wxrcedit)
+
+The XRC format is based on XML 1.0 (please consult W3C's specification). There
+is no DTD available since it is not possible to fully describe the format with
+the limited expressive power of DTDs.
+
+1. Terminology
+--------------
+
+The usual XML terminology applies. In particular, we shall use the terms
+"node", "property" and "value" in the XML sense:
+
+ ...
+
+The term "attribute" is specific to XRC and refers to a property-less subnode
+of an
+
+
+2. Elementary description
+-------------------------
+
+XRC resource file is a well-formed XML 1.0 document.
+
+The root node of XRC document must be . The node has
+optional "version" property. Default version (in absence of the version
+property) is "0.0.0.0". The version consists of four integers separated by
+periods. Version of XRC format changes only if there was an incompatible
+change introduced (i.e. either the library cannot understand old resource
+files or older versions of the library wouldn't understand the new format).
+The first three integers are major, minor and release number of the wxWindows
+release when the change was introduced, the last one is revision number and
+is 0 for the first incompatible change in given wxWindows release, 1 for
+the second etc.
+
+Differences between versions are described within this document in paragraphs
+entitled "Version Note".
+
+The node is only allowed to have and
+subnodes, all of which must have the "name" property.
+
+ - TODO (name, class, subclass)
+
+ - TODO (name, ref, subclass)
+
+
+3. Common attributes
+--------------------
+
+TODO
+
+4. Supported classes
+--------------------
+
+TODO
+
+=== EOF ===
+
+Version: $Id$