[Zope3-dev] Re: Better access to APIs in paths (was Re: needingviewsclues - template/title troubles)

Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:19:22 -0500

Craeg K Strong wrote:
>> I have a hard time believing that someone familiar with
>> xml namespaces will find that their experience with xml namespaces
>> is much help in reading:
>>
>>   <body tal:namespace="dc zope://zope.app.dublincore">
>>      ...
>>
>>      <p tal:content="context/dc:title">Title here</p>
>>
>>      ...
>>
>>   </body> 
> 
> 
> 
> Well, I might have an easier time reading the following:
> 
> <body talns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
> 
> ...
>  <p tal:content="context/dc:title">Title here</p>
> ...
> </body>
> 
> I can leverage my experience with XSLT, where you will commonly see things
> like the following:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>  xmlns:dyn="http://exslt.org/dynamic"
>  extension-element-prefixes="dyn"
>  version="1.0">
>  ...
>  <xsl:template match="Document">
>    <xsl:apply-templates/>
>  </xsl:template>
>   ....
> </xsl:stylesheet>

But nowhere in your xslt is the namespace prefix stuck inside,
much less the middle of, an attribute value.

jim

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