[Zope] XML in Zope

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Wed, 15 May 2002 09:18:26 +0100


Dan Shafer wrote:
> 
> I had in mind to use DTML documents as the storage mechanism for the main
> documents at the core of an application I'm building for a client, but it
> turns out they are going to need to do some things that would be pretty
> cumbersome in a DTML document or method. So I'm investigating using XML for
> these documents.
> 
> Searching zope.org turns up a lot of stuff about XML but, as far as I can
> tell, only one product: XMLDocument. But it describes itself as out of date
> and replaced by ParsedXML, which, as far as I can tell, hasn't had a
> product release yet.
> 
> I can't tell from the ZQR which XML implementation it is documenting.

XMLDocument is out of date.
The ZQR is no longer maintained.
ParsedXML is dead as it currently has no maintainer (well, bar Martijn, who's busy on the
Zope 3 effort and not subscribed to this list...)

To be honest, if you explained the problem we might be able to suggest an alternate
solution...

cheers,

Chris - XML: the world's most inefficient data transfer format