Hello, This a message from a newbie to the Zope-xml process. I have already tried to get pointers to the current discussion, but it has been difficult to get some. So this is my participation to the current building process. I hope it is not a repeat of concepts which has already been proposed many times. XSLT is a tree-to-tree transformation language. Most current implementations rely on the DOM to access the tree. As a Zope system can currently be accessed through ZDOM, it should be possible to apply a XSLT stylesheet to any Zope node, provided that those nodes have been designed to output XML. This would allow to go a step further than 'just' transforming a XMLDocument stored in ZODB but also to access totally dynamic XML produced with the whole potential of Zope (DTML, ZSQL, Python, Perl and so on). You would be able to associate specific stylesheet to the different nodes level (XSLTMethod) and to associate a default XSLT to any folderish or documentish object in ZODB. This would ease the presentation-content separation we all wish to build inside or Web Applications. I think this is a better path for complex apps than the template model. In fact, by producing XML, you give yourself a bigger chance to reuse the logic hidden inside the data aggregation process than by having to rebuild access to the different methods you built to fill a XHTML template. I perfectly get that the publishing environments needs both tools to provide solutions to both simple and complex contexts. I would really appreciate any comment on this small brick for the building. Cheers, PS Excuse the cross posting on Zope-Dev and Zope-xml but Zope- xml does not seem to still be alive. Godefroid Chapelle --------------------- BubbleNet sprl rue Victor Horta 30 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium --------------------------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through SwinG Webmail: http://mail.swing.be