[Zope3-dev] Re: ZCML

[Chris Withers]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> This would totally bloat ZCML and make it unworkable. I mean theory is nice, 
> but Zope is a software, so we have to look at the practical side of things. 
> If ZCML fulfills all XML semantics but is unusable, we lost everything we 
> tried to accomplish.

I'm still not really convinced by the whole XML thing anyway.

Surely a class structure would be just as convenient a way of building up this 
kind of information, with subclassing being used for overriding and 
reconfiguring on the fly?

cheers,

Chris