[ZDP] Start Implementation of ZDP

[Rik Hoekstra]

> good questions. Well, in this case there are only relational
> databases left.
> I personally think they will do fine.
>
> what are you thinking?
>
> stephan
>

Hm,

And a hybrid pure ZClasses and ZClasses deriving from a pluggable brain
connected to a relational database, perhaps completed by one with a
connection to XML Document (though this doesn't do pluggable brains yet)?
Relational databases are a nuisance for storing text and code, in my
opinion. And for storing XML documents they are 'less than optimal' (and
slow as well).
The merits of this hybrid solution are a uniform interface, combined with a
flexible backend. Perhaps the primary means of accessing the ZClasses
concerned should be ZCatalog. This will give the ZDP incredible flexibility
combined with consistency in presentation. It makes design and
implementation a bit more heavy, though...

Rik

> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> > Stephan Richter wrote:
> >
> > > BTW, I agree that ZClasses are the way to go. The XML
> rendering is simply too
> > > slow.
> >
> > I vaguely wonder how much faster ZClasses will be -- probably faster as
> > the datastructure can be flatter, but if you structure it the same as an
> > XMLDocument is structured, there can't be that much of a difference.
> >
> > Anyway, ZClasses are nice, but how are you actually going to fit
> > structured data inside them? Deriving from a base class (DTML Method for
> > instance) will only get you unstructured data. Using propertysheets is
> > limited too. We can derive from Python base classes, but is that what we
> > want? Or am I missing something about ZClasses? I'd like to be able to
> > look at DC's code for some of the ZClasses they have on the portal
> > site..
> >
> > You can also derive a ZClass from an XMLDocument and provide a set of
> > methods to manipulate it. I don't know how well that would work.
> >
> > So, how do you fit a structured document in a ZClass is the answer I'd
> > like answered. Perhaps I'm asking the wrong question -- you work with
> > unstructured documents (or perhaps structured text) with a lot of
> > attributes associated to it?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Martijn
> >
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> Stephan Richter
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