[Zope3-dev] Re: Deploying WSGI Apps with Zope 3.2+

[Jim Fulton]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Tres Seaver wrote:
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>> Sidnei da Silva wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:02:19PM +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
>>> | Sidnei da Silva wrote:
>>> | >
>>> | >My original intention was to put the config file location in the
>>> | >ZConfig schema, but that's *waaaay* too painful right now.
>>> | | What's the specific problem here? I find adding to ZConfig 
>>> schemas | pretty easy...
>>>
>>> Yet you find ZCML declaring namespaces in ZCML files
>>> annoying *wink*. Sometimes I don't understand you :)
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>> +1 to that.  I think Chris doesn't really believe in the Second Law of
>> Python (according to the prophet Peters).
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> 
> No, Chris just doesn't like XML namespaces.  You can still have 
> explicitness without XML namespaces.
> 
> I think I'm starting to grasp the XML division among Zope developers. 
> ZConfig schema definitions use a conventional style of XML with deeply 
> nested elements, text nodes, and no namespaces, while ZCML uses its own 
> style with minimal nesting, many attributes, and many namespaces. 

This style is hardly unique to ZCML.  Many XML languages work this
way, including, for example, XML Schema Definitions.

Jim

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