[Zope3-dev] Applying site-wide look-and-feel (Was Re: )

[Jim Fulton]

Paul Everitt wrote:
> 
> On Nov 10, 2004, at 4:24 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 

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>> Yup. For me, this boils down to separation of concerns.
> 
> 
> So far I think we all agree that the o-wrap thing should be a separate 
> concern, perhaps more separate than the current ZPT approaches in CMF or 
> Zope 3 provide?

Depends on who "we all" are. I agree.

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> I don't think pipelines should be limited to XSLT.  Perhaps not even 
> XML.  They should permit XSLT, though, for people that might want that 
> pattern.

OT: I don't know of any other relevent pipeline technologies.
     AFAICT pipelines implies that XSLT is involved, even if the
     entire pipeline isn't XSLT.

>>
>>> I got intrigued by reversing the process.  Start with how you want 
>>> the page to look.  Pull in the wireframe boxes that need to be 
>>> rendered. Each box is filled by the result of a pipeline that is 
>>> produced by developers and customized by the integrator if needed, 
>>> for instance to hide private workflow states in the tree.
>>
>>
>> This, I think, is the Cocoon model. There are rules (pipelines) that
>> select an outer page, The outer page then invokes (pulls) other pipelines
>> to construct the parts.
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> 
> I'll volunteer to writeup some analysis of this.

Cool

Jim

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