The Zope creator:
Being around for almost a year, I still not able to
handle its syntax.
I recently notice zope have several xml products. I
have a dream to able to draw my web site with a WYSIWYG editor and save it as
XML, then, Zope convert it into a zope tree. This ever have advantage for normal
document, which, for example, if i need to cross-reference a part, I could just
specify an id for that part, and insert it with dtml syntax.
This combine with WEBDAV with so turning zope
an ideal document management server. We would see that it point to very
promising and creative use of zope. If zope is fast and stable enough, it can
even play as an object file system.
I would like to re-arrange the recent zope (dtml)
syntax to allow the use of dot (.) as object name ; a syntax like that xsl using
to reference to objects in the zope tree; and a unified the naming of
zope-defined variables and methods.
I would also like zope to handle true xml with full
unicode support, changing zope syntax (dtml) to compily with xml so it can be
processed by zope and other xml tools.
I hope I am not asking for too much, but I can't
hold to spell out my dream. The last wish is zope be compatible with both
cpython and jpython.
Rgs,
Kent Sin