[Zope3-dev] Re: zcml questions

[Stephan Richter]

On Thursday 21 September 2006 11:52, Jim Fulton wrote:
> I have a feeling that xpath is overkill.

I still think that for ZCML XPath is a good approach. People are familiar with 
it and our designers could just use it presumably.

> It alsoi won't work for actions defined in Python.

I think this is a non-use-case until we have a story (accepted proposal and 
implementation) for Python actions. Don't anticipate. ;-)

> I'd rather see some sort of identifier system.  So, when actions are  
> created, they can have identifiers or properties or something that  
> can be used to filter them out.

The nice thing with XML and XPath is that we already have those identifiers 
and a standard way to address them.

Regards,
Stephan
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