[Zope] StructuredDocuments

[Tres Seaver]

Jeff Hoffman <jeff@goingv.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey, guys.
> 
> For what it's worth, I got a simple StructuredDocument ZClass to work,
> even when used as index_html. Here's how:
> 
> I created a Python product called StructuredDocumentBase that included a
> class of the same name. This class is defined as follows:
> 
> from OFS.DTMLDocument import DTMLDocument
> from StructuredText.StructuredText import html_with_references
> 
> class StructuredDocumentBase:
>     """Mix-in for StructuredDocument ZClass."""
>     def __call__(self, client = None, REQUEST = {}, RESPONSE = None,
>                  **kw):
>         """Render the document given a client object, REQUEST mapping,
>            response, and keyword arguments."""
>         header = apply(self.standard_html_header.__call__,
>                        (client, REQUEST),
>                        kw)
>         body = html_with_references(apply(DTMLDocument.__call__,
>                                           (self, client, REQUEST),
>                                           kw))
>         footer = apply(self.standard_html_footer.__call__,
>                        (client, REQUEST),
>                        kw)
>         return '%s%s%s' % (header, body, footer)
> 
> Then, I created another product called StructuredDocument, this time
> through the web. In this product, I created a ZClass called
> StructuredDocument, which inherits first from StructuredDocumentBase and
> then from DTMLDocument.
> 
> Then, I placed an instance in a folder, navigated to the URL, and it
> worked.
> 
> I would package it up and upload it as a product, but a part of it is
> broken--I can't rename the instance. This has nothing to do (AFAICT) with
> the __call__ voodoo above, but seems to be due to my inheriting from
> DTMLDocument; I created a simple ZClass that did nothing except inherit
> from DTMLDocument and it exhibited the same behavior.
> 
> Anyways, Tres (or anyone using Tres's product), if you want to take this
> idea and integrate it into your STX_Document class that'd be cool. If not,
> I'll make a more complete (and tested) implementation when I can find the
> time.

Ooops, I didn't read far enough forward.  I just posted a modification to the
ZClass solution which uses Lalo's RenderableZClass product to fix the problem. 
I haven't uploaded the modified STX_Document product, because I'm still
wrestling with whether to force the dependency on Lalo's product.

Tres.
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