[Zope-dev] I have a dream!

[Simon Michael]

I came across this yesterday at cosource.com, and I think it's worth
checking out. It's an all-XML, open source web-app platform.

http://www.risource.org

Excerpts from the faq:

In the PIA framework, each application consists of two parts:

  1.A collection of task-specific XML pages which contain
  active-processing tags (<if>, <include>, <repeat>,, etc); These look
  very much like HTML pages.

  2.A core software layer (including a dynamic XML processor) that is
  shared by all applications

Broadly speaking, the PIA does three kinds of things:

  Act as a web server, reading and processing active-XML documents and
  serving up HTML for view.

  Act as a browser proxy, intercepting incoming HTML pages and
  modifying them (e.g. deleting ads or filling-in forms) and showing
  you the modified page.

  Act as a document processor, processing active-XML documents into
  HTML or XML files.

In each case, the PIA processes a markup document to produce another
markup document, based on the particular active tags ("tagset")
associated with the source document.