[Zope] a funny thing happened today...

[Tony McDonald]

At 10:38 am +0200 23/8/99, Martijn Faassen wrote:
>
>> I've been watching the XML-L and XML-DEV lists for, oh 18 months now.
>> There have been announcements of rendering XML into HTML etc on the
>> fly, yes. But the solutions offered have always been too clunky for
>> me (talk of XSL and Java servlets and *much* more arcane stuff flew
>> around and through the list and my head for many moons).
>
>I know next to nothing about XSL and Java servlets. I'd like to study
>XSL sometime, is it really that arcane? I read something about DC going
>to fit XSL into Zope, so I'm curious about it.
>

I initially got turned off by some of the pontificating on the XML 
lists (discussions of XSL, XSLT, XSL FOs - just seemed too complex to 
me). It seemed to me like people were investigating things from a 
research angle and not from an implementation viewpoint (which is ok, 
but I wanted implementations).

Having said that, recent posts on XML-DEV, imply that things may be 
simpler than I thought - I won't post the example I *did* have, as 
this is a Zope list, not an XML list! :). That, along with the fact 
that the XMLDocument product works well and DC have mentioned 
something about XSL too, is pretty good news. I wouldn't expect 
anything big to happen in that arena until Zope 2.1 is out (before 
people go looking, Zope 2.1 *does not exist*, DC have said they are 
feature freezing 2.0 and making it stable, before embarking on new 
functionality).

tone.
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