[Zope3-dev] ZCML alternative

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:46 PM 6/4/02 -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote:

><permission id="Zope.Manage">Manage Contacts</permission>
>
><content class="Zope.Contact.">
>  <require permission="Zope.View">
>   <attribute>name</attribute>
>   <attribute>first</attribute>
>   <attribute>last</attribute>
>   <attribute>email</attribute>
>   <attribute>address</attribute>
>   <attribute>postal_code</attribute>
>  </require>
>  <require permission="Zope.Manage">
>   <zmi-factory id="Zope.Contact">
>    <title>Contact</title>
>   </zmi-factory>
>  </require>
></content>

-10.  <shudder>.   I absolutely cannot *stand* this kind of XML.  I hate it 
with a virulent, albeit irrational, passion.  (Probably due to having to 
write code to process XMI 1.0, which only supports this sort of thing; XMI 
1.1 can use attributes the way God intended them to be.)

While I could maybe believe that site admins can't deal with XML 
namespaces, I really don't believe that they can't handle attributes.  HTML 
is full of attributes!

To be honest, I'm pretty puzzled by this idea that the kind of formatting 
above is "conventional XML", because every time I see that style, I *cringe*.