[Zope3-dev] ZCML alternative

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>You gotta be kidding. It was *you* who recommended *not* using Python
>>for configuration after you saw Python used for configuration early
>>on. 
> 
> 
> I certainly didn't propose XML as an alternative.  I find XML
> inappropriate when a human has to edit it (except in emergencies).

Well, I guess this is totally a matter of taste. I like editing XML by 
hand because it is very structured. And XML was designed to be 
human-readable.

Also, I don't agree with you in that a site administrator who doesn't 
know Python also doesn't know XML. XML as a universal data format (not a 
language, obviously) should not only be known my all people who deal 
with web servers but I think it already *is* well-known among them. If 
not, it doesn't take all that much time to learn it.

Python, on the other hand, does a lot more than just data description. 
As a programming language, it relies on syntax, code blocks etc. etc. 
This would make it more likely for people to make mistakes when they 
don't know Python.

Phil