[Zope3-dev] Re: zcml questions

[Jim Fulton]

On Sep 22, 2006, at 5:06 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> On Sep 21, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Stephan Richter wrote:
> [snip]
>>> This has been proposed and approved, but implementation has been  
>>> delayed due to missing XPath features.
>>>
>>> http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/ 
>>> ZCMLEnhancements
>> I have a feeling that xpath is overkill.  It alsoi won't work for  
>> actions defined in Python.
>
> Not hindered by much actual knowledge about this proposal, I share  
> your feeling. It seems to imply working on the level of XML while  
> we want to have something that's working on the semantic level of  
> Zope configuration. This way, if we grow Python-based configuration  
> or automatic configuration, the system will still work.

Yes (or even an alternate configuration language, which I'm not  
proposing :)

Jim

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