[Zope-CMF] Re: xsl/xul and FSPageTemplate

[Tres Seaver]

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Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
> On 4 Aug 2005, at 00:45, Andy McKay wrote:
> 
>> Not sure if you've written this, but a general FSXMLTemplate (not 
>> just XSL) would be nice for the rendering of xml Page Templates. In 
>> particular the problem I've wrangled with is inserting dynamically 
>> the <? xml parts at the top, for example what I really want to do is
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="rss.xsl"?>
>>
>> Where that really needs to be:
>>
>> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="rss.xsl"  tal:attributes="href
>> string:$portal_url/rss.xsl"?>
> 
> 
> Speaking of that, for one of my sites where I want to have XHTML 1.0 
> strict, I have tried to make the output compliant so it renders as  the
> "correct" type, "application/xhtml+xml" I believe it was, in the 
> browsers that understand it. This was more of a game than anything  else
> because that garbage browwser, IE, has no idea what to do with  that. I
> have found it impossible to get rendered output that is truly  compliant
> because the FSPageTemplate rendering would always insert an  empty line
> before what is supposed to be the very first element, the  "<?xml...". I
> haven't found a way to put that emement outside of my  main metal macro
> because then the parser would barf and claim the  template is erroneous.
> So IMHO there are more problems than "just"  retaining a file extension.

If we used Andy's '.metadata' idea, then the DOCTYPE and <?xml* stuff
could be jammed in before the template got a chance to muck it up.

+1 for the idea.

Tres.
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