I dont know if this is possible, but one feature of any tree-transformation language that might be usefull to me would be the lazy construction of nodes, or the creation of a virtual tree that is in fact a live view of the source tree. XSL seems to be designed as a batch-processing language, which seems at variance to the principles behind zope.
-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Martijn Faassen Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 6:04 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope needs this (and Dynamo has it)
Patrick Phalen wrote:
[Martijn Faassen, on Tue, 07 Mar 2000] :: Thirded. I discussed starting somekind of Zope-XML SIG with Amos Latteier :: and generally he's favorable to this, but how do we start? We need a mailing :: list for starters..
One place to start might be to join the Python XML SIG. It has a high S/N and most of the discussion is probably relevant to the Zope XML effort.
It would provide the benefit of knowing what's currently available from AMK, Four Thought, etc., which might be reusable for Zope.
Four Thought's 4DOM, 4XSLT, 4XPath are getting pretty mature, with 4ODS and 4XLink in the wings.
Right, this is certainly a good place to go to as well. But Zope has its own rather different requirements, and I think we need a seperate place to discuss adapting all these technologies so they'll work with Zope -- the people in the Python XML-SIG might not care about Zope.
Also, the Zope XML list should also be the place where people ask *questions* on using Zope with XML; this way we learn more about what people want and what problems they may be having. And that way we can improve Zope's XML support. The Python XML-SIG wouldn't be the right place for that.
Additionally, if you haven't the bandwidth (I certainly don't) to follow the xml-dev newsgroup, the XML SIG gives you a filtered view of all the mighty standards power struggles going on as we speak in the XML world, so you can have some perspective on the right time to jump on the Schema train and so forth.
Okay, I was considering joining that SIG anyway, but I don't think it's enough for developing Zope's XML support.
Regards,
Martijn
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