[Zope3-dev] RFC: ZConfig and other formats for ZCML

[Chris Withers]

Fred Drake wrote:
> On 1/21/06, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> 
>>are really attributes of foo.  In ZCML, this might have been:
>>
>>   <foo
>>      x="1"
>>      y="2"
>>      />
> 
> 
> Except this breaks down in the case of ZConfig <multikey> elements,
> which allow configuration like this:
> 
>   <foo>
>     x = 1
>     x = 2
>     y = 3
>   </foo>

Yes, but both ZCML and TAL already deal with these kinds of cases, in 
fact, they do so quite clunkilly some might say ;-)

<foo
    x="1 2"
    y="3"
    />

tal:attributes anyone? ;-)

> There are also ways to arrange configuration like this:
> 
>   <search-path>
>     directory1
>     directory2
>     directory3
>   </search-path>

Well, you know, XML does allow for elements to have contents ;-)
ZCML should grow the ability to support elements having content, IMNSHO...

Chris

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