[Zope] XML Content handling questions.

[Dennis Allison]

While you need to write appropriate External Methods and/or Products
to use it, we have found that the ReportLab pyRXP system works well.


On Sat, 28 May 2005, Andreas Jung wrote:

> Zope itself has no native XML support. However there are some products like
> ParsedXML that provide additional functionality. You might also look at 
> Silva CMS
> which is provides native XML support.
> 
> -aj
> 
> --On 27. Mai 2005 14:53:40 -0600 Nikko Wolf <nikko-wolf at earthlink.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Three questions, in order of importance (to me):
> >
> > 1) Is it possible to validate an (uploaded) XML file against a schema
> >    (currently on the Zope server)?
> >     What, if any, extra packages are needed?    I want to use this in my
> >     upload forms to alert the user if their files are invalid.
> >
> > 2) I also need to serve up web-based forms and allow the user to create
> >     XML content based on a user-selected schema.  Something
> >     like what Chiba (http://chiba.sf.net/) is targeting.   Of course,
> >     though, that isn't a Python/Zope solution.  Has anyone seen anything
> >     that works?  At this point, installing Tomcat and Chiba is what I
> >     presume I'll be doing in a couple of weeks....
> >
> > 3) Is there a function built-in to Zope that allows merging XML files?
> >     (ie: all the <abc> within a list of user-selected files).
> >     I've got an Extension that works correctly (using the Amara/4Suite
> >     packages), so an answer here is mostly for me to learn Zope better.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nikko.
> >
> > PS: I'm pretty new to Python & Zope, but not web servers or other
> > programming.
> >
> > Server:
> >     Fedora Core 3
> >     Python 2.3.4
> >     Zope 2.7.6-final
> >     Plone 2.0.5
> >     4Suite 1.0b1
> >     Amara 1.0b2
> >
> >
> >
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