Hello,
I created a gist where you can see a simple app-page example created with JavaScript and at the bottom the corresponding XML if it would be a view (without controller.
Maybe this helps how to understand and "switch" mentally between the JavaScript syntax examples (for example here for a button SAPUI5 SDK - Demo Kit) and the now preferred XML notation of the views (SAPUI5 Explored).
Here is the gist:
https://gist.github.com/denisenepraunig/5a2049f13f8342f5608f
The example on jsbin is here:
JS Bin - Collaborative JavaScript Debugging
How do I get from JavaScript code...
var oSimpleForm = new sap.ui.layout.form.SimpleForm({ ...
to a XML view notation:
<mvc:View xmlns:f="sap.ui.layout.form" ...<f:SimpleForm ...
or vice versa.
Hope this helps someone, at the beginning it was a mind-challenging exercise to switch between those two notations.
BR, Denise