Thomas Kumlehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was asking!

Well, Ian Bicking flattered me by mentioning XMLForms for Webware as a 
comparable project, and I suppose it is in various respects. Take a look at...

  http://www.paul.boddie.net/Python/XMLForms/index.html

Download it from...

  http://www.paul.boddie.net (see the "XMLForms for Webware" section)

The motivation for this project is to tie together inputs to a Web application 
with outputs to the user's browser in a way that supports more formal 
verification that everything will work before you deploy your application (and 
would otherwise find that it doesn't work because your HTML form is missing 
elements, has too many elements, or has elements of the wrong size, or your 
application hasn't been updated to support your latest changes to the data 
model, and so on).

Another thing that I have concentrated on is to provide support in applications 
for the editing of hierarchical data, and to provide interfaces that 
applications can use to accept, manipulate and represent such data without 
having to write lots of application-specific code. Moreover, I have been adding 
generic validation/verification support recently, so that one can incorporate 
specific Python functions to validate data if the built-in min/max/required 
attributes aren't enough.

There are other interesting pieces of infrastructure: I have had a go at 
writing a class which represents decimal numbers exactly, rather than having 
developers attempt to rely on floating point representations which could result 
in undesirable surprises in certain kinds of applications. This is fairly 
experimental, but could be of benefit in many other areas.

All these later improvements will go into 0.1.5, but to get a good enough idea 
of what XMLForms is about, read the documentation and see if it's your thing or 
not. I won't be offended if it isn't. ;-)

Regards,

Paul

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