[Zope-xml] How to use XML in zope

[Craeg K Strong]

See below

christophe robert wrote:
> Le mar 03/09/2002 à 17:42, Craeg K Strong a écrit :
> 
>>christophe robert wrote:
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>>>Le sam 31/08/2002 à 00:33, Craeg Strong a écrit :
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>>>I tested XMLTranform with the Xindice products. It's OK  :)
>>
>>Good news!
>>
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>>>XMLTranform seems to be a good product. 
>>
>>:)
>>
>>
>>>I would like to know how you will integrate FOP in XMLTransform ??
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>>I am thinking of using XML-RPC to call out to a Java VM running FOP.
>>I would use an XMLTransform to generate a FO-format document, and pass
>>that as a string to FOP.  FOP would then generate the PDF and return that
>>as a string to Zope.
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>>I was thinking of creating a "Fopper" Zope object that would transparently
>>take care of that, so navigating to the URL of the fopper object would
>>automatically yield the PDF.
>>
>>The only wart, obviously, is that it requires installing a separate Java
>>process running Fop :-(
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>>Unfortunate, but for now, I do not know of any FO processor written in Python.
>>
> Why not use Jython ?? 

Indeed, this is the plan.  It is still a "Java process running FOP", however :)

--Craeg