About

Hxmr is macros-based MXML replacement for Haxe. It allows you to code object model in declarative style using XML. The most common use case is UI markup.

Profit

• Declarative style
• Almost full Flex4 MXML specification support
• Bindings ( https://github.com/HxJointForces/bindx )
• Cross-platform
• Сompile-time checks
• No need to use Apache Flex, could be used for any kind of tasks, even not for UI.
• Fast compilation
• Extensions support

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<h:Box xmlns:h="h2d.comp.*" layout="Vertical" xmlns:view="*">
    <h:inlineCss>
        <![CDATA['
        .redBtn {border : 1px solid red;} 
        .redBtn:hover {border : 1px solid #990000;}
        .lbl {font-size:26px;}
        ']]>
    </h:inlineCss>

    <h:Label text="'Hello, world!'" classes="['lbl']" />

    <h:Button text="'Button 1'" classes="['redBtn']" />
    <h:Box layout="Horizontal">
        <h:Button text="'Button 2'" />

        <h:Box layout="Vertical">
            <h:Button text="'Button 3'" />
            <h:Button text="'Button 4'" />
        </h:Box>
    </h:Box>

    <view:CheckboxView />
    <view:CheckboxView />

    <h:Label text="'foo'" />
    <h:Label text="'bar'" />

    <h:Checkbox />

</h:Box>

Result: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1036911/HXJointForces/index.html

Pseudo-code generation result: https://gist.github.com/bsideup/5966687

Also look at: https://github.com/HxJointForces/Hxmr/tree/master/src/test/haxe/first

Roadmap

• Milestone 1
  • Reproduce Apache Flex MXML specification in Haxe
  • Test cases
  • Initial stable release
• Milestone 2
  • Specification major improvements
  • Optimization
• Milestone 3
  • Improve extensions support

How to contribute

We are opened for pull requests and contributions. Just respect following specifications :) http://sourceforge.net/adobe/flexsdk/wiki/MXML%202009/