[Zope3-dev] ZCML alternative

[Guido van Rossum]

> Personally, I'd be very happy if namespaces could actually be factored out
> of it all.  That's where XML documents start losing human readability,
> unless everyone follows the same standard for the local name (Page Templates
> work because almost everyone uses tal: and metal:, but there's nothing
> stopping people from using t: and m:, or x: and y:).

+1.  The optimal number of namespaces in any one XML document is 1.

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