[Typo3-dev] $TCA and XML [was: Re: Better templating: PHP!]

[Elmar Hinz]

> 
> Consider for example $TCA. Right now it is strictly bound to be used in
> PHP, since it is an array. Also it is not really kept somewhere but
> mostly needs a loadTCA to get it in memory on the fly. If $TCA would be
> available as XML on a per table basis from a filesystem, it could be
> used from any language.
> 

I can't follow here. Has loadTCA to do with different languages?
Or is it a technique to save resources by only loading those table 
definitions that are needed?

Elmar