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Creating Multi-platform User Interfaces with RenderXML

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As the technology evolves, the existence of different computational devices has made ad hoc software development no longer acceptable in the development of multi-platform software applications. This chapter describes RenderXML, a software tool developed to facilitate the creation of multi-platform applications. RenderXML acts as a renderer, mapping concrete user interfaces (UI) described in UsiXML to multiple platforms, and also as a connector, linking the rendered UI developed in one language to functional core code developed possibly in a different programming language.

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This research is partially funded by CNPq (LIFAPOR/CNPq-Grices Project).

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    Francisco M. Trindade & Marcelo S. Pimenta

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  1. Escuela Politecnica Superior de Albacete, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, Albacete, 02071, Spain

    Victor Lopez Jaquero

  2. Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, Albacete, 02071, Spain

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  4. Institut d'Administration et de Gestion, Université catholique de Louvain, Place des Doyens 1, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348, Belgium

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Trindade, F.M., Pimenta, M.S. (2009). Creating Multi-platform User Interfaces with RenderXML. In: Lopez Jaquero, V., Montero Simarro, F., Molina Masso, J., Vanderdonckt, J. (eds) Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces VI. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-206-1_16

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