[Zope] Re: Zope digest, Vol 1 #330 - 50 msgs

[Alexander Staubo]

When I say XSL I mean XSL :-)  An early syntax for specifying a
style-sheet to render an arbitrary XML document was:

	<?xml-stylesheet href="BigAndBlusterousHtml.xsl" type="text/xsl"
?>

I don't know if this syntax has been preserved.

XSL style sheets can be used to transform an XML document, but when Jim
Fulton mentioned XSL style sheets as being methods, I got somewhat
concerned that he meant for them to be specified explicitly. I would
rather have the option to render a specific set of documents using a
default style sheet, if invoked.

-- 
Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
"QED?" said Russell.
"It's Latin," said Morgan. "It means, So there you bastard."
--Robert Rankin, _Nostramadus Ate My Hamster_

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tres Seaver [mailto:tseaver@palladion.com]
>Sent: 27. juli 1999 05:40
>To: zope@zope.org
>Subject: [Zope] Re: Zope digest, Vol 1 #330 - 50 msgs
>
>
>> From: Alexander Staubo <alex@mop.no>
>> To: "Zope Mailing List (E-mail)" <zope@zope.org>,
>> "'Jim Fulton'"
>> <jim@digicool.com>
>> Subject: RE: [Zope] ANNOUNCE: XMLDocument 1.0a1
>> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 05:31:28 +0200
>> 
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Jim Fulton [mailto:jim@digicool.com]
>> >Sent: 25. juli 1999 14:13
>> >To: Alexander Staubo
>> >Cc: Zope Mailing List (E-mail); 'Amos Latteier'
>> >Subject: Re: [Zope] ANNOUNCE: XMLDocument 1.0a1
>> >
>> >
>> >Alexander Staubo wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Now all we need is an XSL processor so we can transform XML
>> >documents to
>> >> HTML etc. on the fly. Anybody know of a Python
>> >implementation of such a
>> >> gizmo?
>> >
>> >There are a couple.  We plan to integrate FourThought's 4XSL
>> >with Zope.
>> 
>> Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately it only works on Unix, though.
>> 
>> >I expect this will look like "XSL methods".
>> 
>> Well, how would you invoke them? It would be appropriate, 
>say, to have a
>> single folder's XML documents all point to one XSL style 
>sheet. In fact,
>> since the XSL style sheet of a document can be defined in 
>the XML itself
>> -- the syntax escapes me, but I believe it was an XML SI -- this
>> information could be used for overriding the "default" XSL 
>style sheet.
>> 
>> >Also node that *all* Zope objects support DOM at some level
>> >as of Zope 2.0 beta 1.
>> 
>> Any examples of this?
>> 
>> Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
>
>Guessing wildly, but I believe that you are thinking of XSL as 
>meaning the
>"Document Type Definition" (DTD) for a given class of XML 
>documents:  the DTD
>defines the allowable elements/attributes for its class, and 
>is normally
>referenced at the head of the document;  it can be defined or 
>overridden within
>the document itself.
>
>XSL is a slice-and-dice query/transformation language, based 
>on the DSSSL
>beloved of SGML geeks (itself based on Scheme, I think).   An 
>XSL style-sheel
>_renders_ an XML document, just as DTML renders Zope objects.
>
>Frankly, the most exciting news about the XMLDocument is that 
>I can put off
>learning XSL, and just use DTML and Python instead.
>
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