[Zope] a funny thing happened today...

[Paul Everitt]

A brief note, FWIW -- Mozilla has now grafted XSL support into their
codebase.  Believe it or not, someone sent in the patches :^)

Thus, client-side XSL might not be an "IE5 but broken"-only arrangement.

--Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony McDonald [mailto:tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 3:34 AM
> To: Martijn Faassen; Zope List
> Subject: Re: [Zope] a funny thing happened today...
> 
> 
> At 10:38 am +0200 23/8/99, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> >
> >> 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).
> >
> >I know next to nothing about XSL and Java servlets. I'd like to study
> >XSL sometime, is it really that arcane? I read something 
> about DC going
> >to fit XSL into Zope, so I'm curious about it.
> >
> 
> I initially got turned off by some of the pontificating on the XML 
> lists (discussions of XSL, XSLT, XSL FOs - just seemed too complex to 
> me). It seemed to me like people were investigating things from a 
> research angle and not from an implementation viewpoint (which is ok, 
> but I wanted implementations).
> 
> Having said that, recent posts on XML-DEV, imply that things may be 
> simpler than I thought - I won't post the example I *did* have, as 
> this is a Zope list, not an XML list! :). That, along with the fact 
> that the XMLDocument product works well and DC have mentioned 
> something about XSL too, is pretty good news. I wouldn't expect 
> anything big to happen in that arena until Zope 2.1 is out (before 
> people go looking, Zope 2.1 *does not exist*, DC have said they are 
> feature freezing 2.0 and making it stable, before embarking on new 
> functionality).
> 
> tone.
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