[Zope3-dev] Re: zcml questions

[Jim Fulton]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Chris Withers wrote:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> I have a feeling that xpath is overkill.
>
> I wish it was, but I don't think it is..
>
>> It alsoi won't work for actions defined in Python.
>
> Wasn't aware you could do this, where can I find examples?

You can't yet. You can't use XPATH either. :)

I definately want to make it possible for people to specify actions  
in Python.

>
>> I'd rather see some sort of identifier system.
>
> But that would mean every piece of zcml would need to have an id  
> manually assigned as in id with the assigner ensuring that it's  
> unique.

Not necessarily.  actions already have discriminators which are,  
essentially ids.  What's needed is a way of assigning ids to  
directives, mainly subscriber definitions, that don't have  
discriminators. I also think it would be useful to be able to assign  
ids to groups of configuration to make it easier to disable a  
collection of things that go together.

Jim

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