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<pre wrap="">2) I also need to serve up web-based forms and allow the user to create
XML content based on a user-selected schema. Something
like what Chiba (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://chiba.sf.net/">http://chiba.sf.net/</a>) is targeting. Of course,
though, that isn't a Python/Zope solution. Has anyone seen anything
that works? At this point, installing Tomcat and Chiba is what I
presume I'll be doing in a couple of weeks....</pre>
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This one is still a big issue. I'm presuming that neither Zope nor
Python have addressed XForms.<br>
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Does anyone here know of a project which has that I can incorporate, or
use with Zope/Plone?<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><tt>Andreas Jung wrote:</tt></blockquote>
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type="cite"><tt>Zope itself has no native XML support. However there
are some products like <br>
ParsedXML that provide additional functionality. You might also look at
Silva CMS <br>
which is provides native XML support.</tt></blockquote>
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<tt>I found some info on Silva last week, but passed over it since I'm
using Plone (and cannot switch). Will they work together?<br>
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<pre wrap=""><tt><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap=""><tt>Dennis Allison wrote:</tt>
</pre></blockquote></tt><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap=""><tt> While you need to write appropriate External Methods and/or Products
to use it, we have found that the ReportLab pyRXP system works well.
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<tt>I just found where Uche Ogbuji wrote, in
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2004/02/11/py-xml.html">http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2004/02/11/py-xml.html</a> -- [Version 0.7 parser
had a fatal error with input containing </tt><code>&#8230;</code><tt>]
"The responses from the developers were, more or less, that PyRXP
raises a fatal error when presented with XML characters with Unicode
ordinal greater than U+256, regardless of how they are represented. The
unfortunate upshot of this is that PyRXP 0.9 is not an XML parser."<br>
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Perhaps he's overly harsh, but since the XML files I'm dealing with are
used to map between (human) languages, correct UTF-8 handling is
vital. Have you perchance tried and had success with anything beyond
U+256?<br>
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I wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Three questions, in order of importance (to me):
1) Is it possible to validate an (uploaded) XML file against a schema
(currently on the Zope server)?
What, if any, extra packages are needed? I want to use this in my
upload forms to alert the user if their files are invalid.
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Currently, I've an Extension "browser-ish" class that takes the
form.file submission (and other data), MIME encodes them and forwards
them via HTTP to a Perl XML validation tool on the web that </tt><tt>was
</tt><tt>already running. It's an *ugly* hack, but it works for now.<br>
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<pre wrap="">3) Is there a function built-in to Zope that allows merging XML files?
(ie: all the <abc> within a list of user-selected files).
I've got an Extension that works correctly (using the Amara/4Suite
packages), so an answer here is mostly for me to learn Zope better.
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Sounds like this is as good as it gets, or close enough that it
wouldn't be worth the effort to change.<br>
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Thanks again,<br>
Nikko<br>
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