[Zope-xml] XML Transform without predefined XML source (Re: XMLTransform interface alternatives)

[Igor Elbert]

I am looking at the XMLTransform and think it's a great product. Here is my
$.02 about it:

I think it would be useful if XMLTransform allowed me to leave the Source ID
field empty and assumed it's applied to an XML.
For example I would like to be able to write:
http://MyFolder/myZSQLmethod/asXML/transform and get a rendered page.

This way transformer doesn't know how it gets its XML and behaves like a
true pipe.

Maybe it's possible to do the same with the current implementation but I did
not find how.

The proposed enhancement would let me to chain transformers:
....../asXML/transform1/transform2

The next logical step would be to allow supplying XSL on the fly:
http://MyFolder/myZSQLmethod/asXML/transform/myXSL

Does it make sense?