[Zope3-dev] RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

[Jim Fulton]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 March 2006 06:29, Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
>>Could you please explain how zope.schema would deal with hierarchies?
>>As I mentioned earlier the file format is uninteresting at this point.
>>Having an easy and flexible framework for defining a configuration schema
>>should be the goal and I have currently no idea how you would define
>>some more complex configuration schemas using zope.schema.
> 
> 
> I have used schemas multiple times to represent hierarchies, most recently in 
> the zf.zscp work, where I parse XML files using a schema or a set thereof. 
> You simply use the Object field to connect a sub-schema to a schema. I have 
> also used hierarchical schema trees in the principal settings code, where you 
> hook in dynamically new schemas.

Exactly.

Jim

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