Tony McDonald wrote:
People, I'd like to share a thought I had this morning as I read a post by Stephan Richter on the zdp list.
Stephan: At 11:29 am -0500 22/8/99, Stephan Richter wrote:
yep, go to my site. I have four XML documents wrapped by DTML. :) http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/srichter Works great by the way, thanks to Martijn Faassen.
It occurred to me that the Zope community now has the ability to render XML documents *on the fly* into HTML (or whatever), doing it almost transparently, and within a framework that is extremely powerful.
It's been amazing to watch how quickly Stephan figured out how it works; so far I only worked with a single type of XML document, but he's wrapped 4 already! This indicates not only that Stephan's smart, but also that it's indeed not that hard to do. :)
I've been watching the XML-L and XML-DEV lists for, oh 18 months now. There have been announcements of rendering XML into HTML etc on the fly, yes. But the solutions offered have always been too clunky for me (talk of XSL and Java servlets and *much* more arcane stuff flew around and through the list and my head for many moons).
I know next to nothing about XSL and Java servlets. I'd like to study XSL sometime, is it really that arcane? I read something about DC going to fit XSL into Zope, so I'm curious about it.
In short, this is a *big* win for the Zope community.
Definitely! Regards, Martijn