[Zope-dev] To ZCML or not ;-)

[Martijn Faassen]

Lennart Regebro wrote:
[snip]
> For me, the main drawback with ZCML is that WingIDE doesn't to auto
> completion on it. ;) An ZCML editor that automatically popped up a
> list of the supported keywords for every statement would be really
> nice. :-p

Actually emacs + nxml + the Relax NG schema (unfortunately out of date; 
it should be autogenerated from the code) for ZCML does that.

> A benefit of using an XML format is that many editors will happily
> both do syntax high-lighting, some sort of auto-indentation, and
> automatic commenting/uncommenting. A non-standard syntax wouldn't do
> that.

Yup, and if you use some XML editor (or an XML editor extension for your 
favorite editor) it can do quite sophisticated schema-driven stuff.

Regards,

Martijn