[Zope-Coders] hello, and introduction

[Chris McDonough]

In short:  yay!

- C


Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> As soon as I figure out what's up with the ssh-key business (I already mailed
> a cry for help to the cvs master at cvs-admin@zope.org) I hope I'll (finally)
> have the ability to do checkins. Yay! :)
> 
> So, I figured it might be a good idea to introduce myself to those of
> you who don't know me yet. 
> 
> I'm Martijn (not the Other Martijn, but in case of confusion I listen to
> MartijnF and even to Bob :). I've been active in the Zope community for
> a couple of years now. I've been active in the Python community for a
> bit longer, so some of the PythonLabs crew know me as well.
> 
> My areas of interest/activity in Zope land (excuse me as I ramble 
> on for a while):
> 
> * Formulator
> 
> A Zope framework for creating web forms (and their validation backend).
> Not in the Zope core, of course, but who knows, one day.
> 
> * Zope and XML
> 
> This is rather varied. I've played a lot with XMLDocument, the predecessor
> of ParsedXML. On top of XMLDocument I built something called XMLWidgets,
> which uses some wild pagan concepts related to some beliefs of the
> Component New Religion. Widgets are objects that you could see as
> 'features' dynamically attached to DOM nodes. 
> 
> XMLWidgets can be used to write simple XML renderers using standard
> Zope components such as DTML methods. I have also used it to create a
> through-the-web semi-WYSIWYG authoring system for simple XML documents.  
> 
> More recently I've been working with ParsedXML; in fact I helped some
> in the development, so I know that codebase rather well. I've also
> been active integrating 4XPath so one can perform XPath queries against
> ParsedXML's DOM. This appears to work, and I'll be releasing some code
> soon. It is mostly an installation/compilation problem to get all
> the dependencies (PyXML, 4Suite) going. The integration code is
> rather simple.
> 
> The ParsedXML DOM wrapper implementation for DOM/Zope integration was
> rather painfully slow, so I've recently rewritten this to be a lot faster.
> I can now soon proceed to check in this new code. :)
> 
> I'm also trying to do something XMLWidgets-like with ParsedXML. This is
> still in the design and experimentation phase currently, but it is
> an important topic for me.
> 
> I'm also rather interested in doing something New Religion-like with
> ZDOM; the DOM interface for Zope objects. A read-only ZDOM would give
> us the ability to do XPath queries against Zope trees, which could be
> quite powerful. XPath, as suggested somewhere in the ZPL docs, could
> eventuall also become a TALES expression type.
> 
> I have a variety of other interests and experiences with the Zope
> code base that I can't think of right now. We'll see what'll develop.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martijn
> 
> 
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Chris McDonough                    Zope Corporation
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