[Grok-dev] Re: RFC: Masterpage implementation without macros

[Martijn Faassen]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> We need to try some implementation work. Either lxml or Genshi should 
>> offer the tools to implement the xpath stuff. It also needs work to 
>> define what grok.skin() actually does and then to implement it.
> 
> I'm much in favour of having an XML-based pipeline (both lxml and Genshi 
> sound like they provide good tools here).
> 
> Gary Poster just proposed (see my response [1]) something on the 
> zope3-dev mailinglist to allow standard browser views to return 
> non-string objects which the publisher then adapts to IResult in order 
> to actually obtain a string. 

Just proposed? This:

 > [1] http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2005-December/016796.html

Goes back to december 2005. :)

Anyway, allowing the standard browser views to return something that 
needs to be adapted to IResult would allow us to return markup streams 
that could then possibly be post-processed. If we can at least hook into 
the right place of the publisher to do the post-processing?

Meanwhile it looks like Kevin Smith's skin work on his branch can just 
go ahead, as we'll need it whatever we do. We should look into merging that.

Regards,

Martijn