[XML-SIG] Python / XML / XSLT vs. Cocoon for website server side

[Uche Ogbuji]

> Craeg,
> 
> Good article you put together - very informative. It definetly helps - now
> I'll have to take another look at Zope.
> 
> Does Zope make it as easy to keep a strict seperation between the content /
> presentation / business logic that Cocoon promises? Were you able to
> implement the XSLT transformation in Zope with your modifications that
> Cocoon offers? If you were forced to move to Cocoon - how much recoding
> would be needed? 20%? 50%? 80%?
> 
> Did you consider any of the following [+my impressions]:
>  Webware? [very nicely done, concerned not large enough user community -
> prefer XSLT over PSP]
>  Quixote? [seemed like to choice, but prefer standard markup like XSLT]
>  CherryPy? [prefer XSLT]
>  Spyce?
>  Cheetah?
>  Mod_python? [will use in production release]
>  Albatross? [?]
>  Twisted? [?]

I want to point out that 4Suite has a server framework built-in that is 
heavily XSLT-driven.  If you have a strong preference for XSLT, I would 
recommend trying it.  We're just about to announce the 1.0 beta, and it's not 
as polished as many of the other entrants above, but it's in very active 
development and you should find good support on the mailing list.

It does provide for separation of content and presentation using chained 
stylesheets.  There has been a lot of discussion of that on the mailing list.


-- 
Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
Introducing Anobind - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/13/py-xml.html
XML Topic Maps by the book - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/
x-think19.html
Charming Jython - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jython.h
tml
Python, Web services, and XSLT - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/libr
ary/ws-pyth13/
Perspective on XML: What is this 'agility'? - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp
?id=8004

-- 
Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
Introducing Anobind - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/13/py-xml.html
XML Topic Maps by the book - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/
x-think19.html
Charming Jython - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jython.h
tml
Python, Web services, and XSLT - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/libr
ary/ws-pyth13/
Perspective on XML: What is this 'agility'? - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp
?id=8004