[Zope] Re: where's the XML?

[Tres Seaver]

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Erik Myllymaki wrote:

> I want to access numerous methods/functions on a zope server via
> Javascript. Zope has xml "built-in" right?

Zope is about publishing *Python objects*;  any available XML support
which is focused on that (e.g., you can export objects from the ZODB as
XML pickles;  you can render an object to XML using a ZopePageTemplate,
etc.)

> So must I write my own XML output?

If you call a Zope method over XMLRPC, and return Python primitives
(lists, dicts, strings, ints, etc.), then Python's XMLRPC library will
marshall those objects to the XMLRPC XML dialect for you.  (BTW, the "X"
in "AJAX"" was originally about =XMLRPC, not about arbitrary XML).


Tres.
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