[Zope] Zope/XML futures?

Christian Wittern chris@ccbs.ntu.edu.tw
Fri, 12 May 2000 17:13:25 +0800


Nigel,

This is a bug in Zope 216. You have to put the line

from DocumentTemplate.DT_Util import Eval, expr_globals

in ZCatalog.py, right after the copyright and it will work again.

All the best,

Christian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf
> Of Nigel Head
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 1:34 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Zope/XML futures?
>
>
> /DELURK
>
> Greeting to fellow travellers in the Kingdom of Zopremia!
>
> I've started playing with the XML capabilities of Zope and I'getting quite
> excited! A few wierdnesses (mainly involved in writing to the DOM) but
> generally looks great!
>
> I remember a while back DC said there was a (plan for a?) cooperation with
> FourThought to incorporate 4DOM - I understood this to be as a replacement
> for XMLDocument. Can anyone give a road-map for this work (both
> technical -
> what sort of changes should we be expecting etc? as well as
> schedule wise)?
> It would be nice to have a vague idea of the future route before I do too
> much that may have to be discarded later.
>
>
> Lastly - somewhere along the line the XMLDocument (I'm using a6
> with 2.1.6)
> has lost the capability to fully support finding components into a Catalog
> as demonstrated in the XML.com article by Amos --  "Eval" and friends seem
> to have gone missing;  I assume that at some time XMLDocument
> must have been
> inheriting from DTMLDocument.  Not a disaster but mildly
> irritating all the
> same.  I'm not yet confident enough of my knowledge of the Zope
> architecture
> to know what would be involved in getting this functionality replaced; the
> obvious solutions of putting DTMLDocument back at some point in the
> hierarchy have all kind of backfired on me and I'm somewhat confused and
> groggy from the attempts.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nigel Head
> nhead@houbits.com
>
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