On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-22 15:30]:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > >   I think web-based search would be interesting and would be helped by a
>  > >   better browsing interface.  (Some progress in search is dependent on
>  > >   making progress on the tag/attribute discussion.)  I have a
>  > >   preliminary changeset that provides an Atom feed of the catalog
>  > >   updates that would be nice to see finished.  I'd like to see work on
>  > >   the intent and statistics side, too.
>  > >
>  > >   Dan and I were kicking around how we might use either a templating
>  > >   system, like
>  > >
>  > >   http://www.makotemplates.org/
>  > >
>  > >   or even one of the lighter frameworks, like
>  > >
>  > >   http://www.cherrypy.org/
>  > >
>  > >   to make it easier to flesh out pkg.depotd's reporting capabilities.
>  >
>  > Has anyone looked at Genshi as an alternative to Mako?
>  >
>  > http://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/GenshiFaq
>  >
>  > It is XML-oriented instead of stream oriented and that makes it easier
>  > to fit into the XML toolchains available.
>
>   (Yes.)  What XML data do you plan to transform?  Or, if you like, why
>   would we use XML in an interface layer that we expect to be mostly
>   directed at humans?

I was mainly talking about transforming the output.

The web formats I imagine being used are XML-based in nature, right?
So, the output could be XHTML, RSS, etc.

I don't have my heart set on any particular toolkit here. I just
wanted to see if Genshi had been considered.

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben
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