[Zope3-dev] alternate format for configuration files

[Steve Alexander]

Casey Duncan wrote:
> I like 8^). This is much easier to read and discern what each value is 
> being applied to.
> 
> You would need to make sure that one could still override settings at a 
> higher level easily. I think that is doable, but requires a bit more 
> thought with the nested tag structure.

There's that issue of overridability.

There's also the issue of extensibility: At present, code that is not in 
the zope3 core can define new directives, in a new namespace.

The namespaces of code in the core are also important to maintain the 
modularity of Zope 3.

With the addition of namespaces, it should be a simple transformations 
from Jeremy's notation to the current zcml, and back. Perhaps someone 
would write an XSL-T or python script to do it?

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Steve Alexander