[ZPT] Re: xpath: expression type?

[Tonico Strasser]

Chris Withers schrieb:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Just rad your excellent blog post at:
> http://radio.weblogs.com/0116506/2005/10/05.html#a351
> 
> ...and it made me wonder: what if ZPT had an xpath: expression type?
> 
> Your examples could become:
> 
> <li tal:repeat="i xpath:item/title/text()"
>     tal:content="i">Item ID</li>
> 
> <li tal:repeat="i xpath:item[@paid]/title/text()"
>     tal:content="i">Item ID</li>
> 
> I don't reckon this is gonna be that hard to implement...
> 
> comments anyone?

OTOH I would love a ZPT implementation with less expression types; e.g. 
without 'python:', 'string:' and 'exists:' expressions. Read only templates.

Tonico