[XML-SIG] XML and Zope

[A.M. Kuchling]

As part of experimenting with Zope, I wanted to create a new tag under
DocumentTemplate, and chose to create one that formatted some XML; I
re-used my quotation formatting code, which made the job pretty
trivial.  It wasn't too hard to do, and you can see some notes on it
at http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/zope/new-tag.html .

As an example, in a DTML document I can now put:

<!--#quotation-->
  <quotation>
   The days come and go... <source>Ralph Waldo Emerson</source>
  </quotation>
<!--#/quotation-->

The tag will convert the fragment of XML it contains into HTML; more
realistically, the content would come from a database query or some
other source, and be present as a variable, something like:

<!--#quotation-->
  <!--#var text-->
<!--#/quotation-->

This is a very simple example, of course.  What could we do that would
be more general and more useful?  An XSL styler (think of it: <!--#xsl
stylesheet="mine.xsl"--> ...) would be an obvious prospect, but would
also be a sizable job.  Is there something smaller that would be
easier to implement, but still useful for someone?

-- 
A.M. Kuchling			http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/
Barney turned his little squinty blue eyes on me. "We go to the garrick now
and become warbs," he said. "The hell we do!" I thought to myself quickly.
    -- James Thurber, "The Black Magic of Barney Haller", in _The Thurber
       Carnival_