[ZPT] Generating XML documents in ZPT

[Dieter Maurer]

Chris Withers wrote at 2004-8-17 08:51 +0200:
>Evan Simpson wrote:
>> You should, but that's not the problem.  The problem is almost certainly 
>> that you don't have an xmlns:tal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/tal" 
>> declaration on your root element (or some other enclosing element).  ZPT 
>> in XML-mode requires explicit declaration of namespaces.
>
>Can anyone suggest a good reason for the pedantic, confusing and 
>underdocumented "feature"?

It is mandated by the XML-namespace specification.

-- 
Dieter