[Zope] XMLDocument question

[Martijn Faassen]

Jim Harrison wrote:
> 
> I'm beginning to work with XMLDocument and I have a question. I'm a pretty
> green Zope newbie, so please excuse me if this is naive.

[snip]
 
> What's the strategy behind the id notation approach to access? It's pretty
> unwieldy given that you must view the document's display in the management
> interface to see what ids are there, and ids change when the document is
> edited. Is there a way to use the tag names in a url to target particular
> parts of the document?

Hm, XMLWidgets may not do what you want exactly but it does allow a way
to target tag names (and specific tags). Look it up at:

http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/XMLWidgets

You'll need to dive into the Python sources to use it though, currently.

[snip] 
> Since the slideshow example uses tag names along with objectValues to target
> particular document content for display, the names are clearly there
> (somewhere) and usable ... maybe I'm just thinking about this the wrong way.
> If someone could post some additional example code dealing with tag name
> manipulation, it would probably be really helpful to me.

XMLWidgets does contain plenty of sample code. :)

Regards,

Martijn