[Zope3-dev] ZCML bad ;-)

[Chris Withers]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>>
>> One issue though is that I want to replace ZConfig with a ZConfig
>> format for zcml. (This would include making ZCML extensible to accept
>> any other format.) The user experience would be the same, but
>> extending it would be a lot easier than extensing ZConfig.  I plan to
>> make a proposal for this in the next few days.
> 
> Running ahead of your proposal, I wonder whether you mean using 
> ZConfig's syntax to replace ZCML's syntax, or replace ZConfig's syntax 
> with ZCML syntax. Both are fundamentally different approaches, but I can 
> read either in what you say here. :)

FWIW, I still hate ZCML for the following reasons:

- the tags never have any content, that's a sign xml is the wrong solution

- if anyone has or does rebind xml namespaces, it causes confusion. 
having to include the namespace definitions at the top of each file is 
dead chicken most of the time.

- personally, I just find it hard to read..

I'd really like to see everything done in zope.conf-style format, I 
think this would work for all ZCML's use cases, we could even extend 
ZConfig to support "namespaces", what do people think?

cheers,

Chris

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