-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rocky Burt wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-01 at 11:09 -0500, Tres Seaver wrote: >> While I am vehemently opposed to code generation per se, one alternative >> which I think is important is to generate stuff *at runtime* from >> artifacts which are more understandable to business users than Python >> code. E.g., they might specify schema in a spreadsheet, an HTML form, >> or a UML diagram, which we then use to create a schema interface (my >> 'userschema' package[1] does this already for the first two). > > Not sure which mailing list my questions belong on but for the time > being I'll ask them here (any list subscribers feel free to tell me to > take this discussion offline). > > This userschema package looks very cool and it's nice to see all the > cool ways you can produce schema's from user contributed data (ie csv, > html). But I'm curious to know what sort of use cases you have for the > end-result schema's ... simple formlib form generation? content type + > edit form (via formlib) generation?
Obviously generated UI is the main use-case; I have some notions about making it easier to use schema stuff from within "custom" UI, but they aren't fleshed out yet. I do have a notion of allowing the template which *specifies* the schema to be used to *render* its fields, but haven't got that part working yet. Chris McDonough and I have talked about using a meld3-based approach to that, as well. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFpR3g+gerLs4ltQ4RAtMPAKDIlX5ulm/Q6UquWTO74XKlZXWCTQCeOjli rIT6hvLSWmK8ZGqNiZfoZZQ= =vyeh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
