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

[Chris Withers]

Tres Seaver 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"?>

Yup, we've all been there before. That, and script tags ;-)

> 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.

For me, this is a limitation of Page Templates that should be addressed, 
this doesn't affect only page templates in CMF. What's the correct 
way/place to start thinking about how to make Page Templates does with 
this common requirement?

cheers,

Chris

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