[Zope3-dev] ZCML alternative

[Guido van Rossum]

> I remember the W3C counting human-readability to the advantages of XML. 
> There are a lot of people who code HTML manually and I guess they 
> wouldn't do any different with XML.

It's fine for adding markup to data that's mostly text.  But ZCML has
no text, only markup with tons of required attributes.  Face it, ZCML
is closer to a programming language than to a text markup language (in
intent, and in execution).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)