[Zope3-dev] Re: A possible component architecture interpretation of workflow

[Jim Fulton]

yuppie wrote:
> Hi Jim!
> 
...

> Let me try to summarize what already exists for form processing. Please 
> correct me if I'm missing something.
> 
> 1. The pre-processing in zope.publisher.browser:
> 
> Similar to what exists in Zope 2. Includes the converter machinery which 
> provides some basic form processing, but is not very helpful for 
> advanced tasks.
> 
> 2. The processing in zope.app.form:
> 
> A widget/schema based machinery. Quite sophisticated, but not very 
> helpful if your forms are not schema based.
> 
> 
> Thats all I found. If I understand your new approach right, the result 
> would be a new layer between these two existing ones. Based on that new 
> layer zope.app.form would become more lightweight and non-widget forms 
> could use that machinery as well. Right?

Yup. Exactly.

Jim

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