[Zope] a funny thing happened today...

[Tony McDonald]

People,
I'd like to share a thought I had this morning as I read a post by 
Stephan Richter on the zdp list.

Stephan:
At 11:29 am -0500 22/8/99, Stephan Richter wrote:
>yep, go to my site. I have four XML documents wrapped by DTML. :)
>http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/srichter
>Works great by the way, thanks to Martijn Faassen.

It occurred to me that the Zope community now has the ability to 
render XML documents *on the fly* into HTML (or whatever), doing it 
almost transparently, and within a framework that is extremely 
powerful.

I've been watching the XML-L and XML-DEV lists for, oh 18 months now. 
There have been announcements of rendering XML into HTML etc on the 
fly, yes. But the solutions offered have always been too clunky for 
me (talk of XSL and Java servlets and *much* more arcane stuff flew 
around and through the list and my head for many moons).

In short, this is a *big* win for the Zope community.

tone out.
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Dr Tony McDonald,  FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project 
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