Hi, Josh
Thanks for the insight! I also just noticed that there is a whole lot of
good information already up there in the Wiki. This does look like great
stuff. I see how it complements Zope's current data storage capabilities. It
provides good ways to move XML data in and out of the ZODB via XSLT and to
store and manipulate XML data efficiently using XML Documents. These are
excellent capabilities indeed.
Have a great weekend!
Kevin
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From: "Josh Zeidner" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] The future of Zope with XML( what does ZDOM do for
us? )
Hi Kevin,
What FourThought/DC are currently doing with Zope will allow for fast
transformations to memory-resident structured data( ZDOM or whatever ) to
exportable XML documents( which are simply strings of characters ). This
introduces( to the Zope world ) cutting edge metaphors in web-application
design. All data to be served to a client is some form of XML: including
HTML ( a better term: structured data ). The internal structure, or
representation( or "deep structure" if you are into Chomsky ), is the
data/knowledge as the web site managers see it- and most likely the most
accurate and flexible when dealing with the particular
ormation-domain(
this is what theyre paid for :) ). Each user has custom needs- and wants to
see this information the way they( or the applications working on thier
behalf ) are accustomed to. So, architectually speaking, we need a way to
easily and quickly construct XML documents from some meta-type( our internal
structure ). This is what ZDOM is accomplishing for us.
Parsing is a expensive endeavor. It is not practical to parse character
streams every time we want to get at our data. So the solution is to
represent the data as something more computationally digestible. Again :
this is
what ZDOM is accomplishing for us.
Does this answer your question?
have a good weekend,
Josh Zeidner
-"zippa-dee-doo-da" , uncle remus
Hello,
Thanks for getting this document going. It's good to see where XML
is
going in Zope.
I do have a question, though. For me, the main value in XML has been
in
its usefulness as a flexible interchange format. Right now, I can store
data
as objects (either straight Python or ZClasses) in Zope and transform
those
into XML if I need to share it with the outside world (eg RSS).
Similarly,
though I haven't done this, I believe I can take XML from the outside
world,
parse it and store it in objects in the database. Are there advantages to
storing the data in Zope as XML vs. storing my data as objects?
Thanks,
Kevin
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Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 11:05 PM
Subject: [Zope-dev] The future of Zope with XML
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