XULMaker Project

Notes

XUL Version 0.6 to Version 1.0

Element and Attribute names changed from XUL Version 0.6 to XUL Version 1.0 as follows:

XUL v0.6 -> XUL v1.0
• value -> label
• tabpanel -> tabbox, etc.
• textfield -> textbox
• treecolgroup -> treecols
• text -> description
• spring -> spacer

XULMaker Namespace for Element, Attribute and Value Names

Elements, Attributes and Values that are specific to XULMaker are given a XULMaker namespace. The namespace is defined as a constant in xmSettings.js and as an entity in xulmaker.xul. (Currently the XUlMaker namespace is defined as xm:.)

The following are some of the defined XULMaker Attributes:

• xm:active

All elements in the XUL design document are given id attributes with values generated by XULMaker. These values have a XULMaker namespace, e.g. id="xm:box0"

Elements in the XULMaker application that require id's also have values that have a XULMaker namespace, e.g. id="xm:idtree". Elements in xulmaker.xul and associated overlays that are used as containers are typically given id's so that they may be found with the document.getElementsById() method.

References in a CSS stylesheet to elements and attributes with a namespace need to be dealt with by using an escape character for the ":" character since this character is special in the CSS syntax. e.g.
.idlist-id[xm/:active="true"] { font-weight : bold }
*[xm/:active="true"] { border-style: dashed }