When I say XSL I mean XSL :-) An early syntax for specifying a style-sheet to render an arbitrary XML document was: <?xml-stylesheet href="BigAndBlusterousHtml.xsl" type="text/xsl" ?> I don't know if this syntax has been preserved. XSL style sheets can be used to transform an XML document, but when Jim Fulton mentioned XSL style sheets as being methods, I got somewhat concerned that he meant for them to be specified explicitly. I would rather have the option to render a specific set of documents using a default style sheet, if invoked. -- Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ "QED?" said Russell. "It's Latin," said Morgan. "It means, So there you bastard." --Robert Rankin, _Nostramadus Ate My Hamster_
-----Original Message----- From: Tres Seaver [mailto:tseaver@palladion.com] Sent: 27. juli 1999 05:40 To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Re: Zope digest, Vol 1 #330 - 50 msgs
From: Alexander Staubo <alex@mop.no> To: "Zope Mailing List (E-mail)" <zope@zope.org>, "'Jim Fulton'" <jim@digicool.com> Subject: RE: [Zope] ANNOUNCE: XMLDocument 1.0a1 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 05:31:28 +0200
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Fulton [mailto:jim@digicool.com] Sent: 25. juli 1999 14:13 To: Alexander Staubo Cc: Zope Mailing List (E-mail); 'Amos Latteier' Subject: Re: [Zope] ANNOUNCE: XMLDocument 1.0a1
Alexander Staubo wrote:
Now all we need is an XSL processor so we can transform XML
documents to
HTML etc. on the fly. Anybody know of a Python implementation of such a gizmo?
There are a couple. We plan to integrate FourThought's 4XSL with Zope.
Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately it only works on Unix, though.
I expect this will look like "XSL methods".
Well, how would you invoke them? It would be appropriate, say, to have a single folder's XML documents all point to one XSL style sheet. In fact, since the XSL style sheet of a document can be defined in the XML itself -- the syntax escapes me, but I believe it was an XML SI -- this information could be used for overriding the "default" XSL style sheet.
Also node that *all* Zope objects support DOM at some level as of Zope 2.0 beta 1.
Any examples of this?
Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/
Guessing wildly, but I believe that you are thinking of XSL as meaning the "Document Type Definition" (DTD) for a given class of XML documents: the DTD defines the allowable elements/attributes for its class, and is normally referenced at the head of the document; it can be defined or overridden within the document itself.
XSL is a slice-and-dice query/transformation language, based on the DSSSL beloved of SGML geeks (itself based on Scheme, I think). An XSL style-sheel _renders_ an XML document, just as DTML renders Zope objects.
Frankly, the most exciting news about the XMLDocument is that I can put off learning XSL, and just use DTML and Python instead.
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