[Zopexmlmethods-users] How to call XSLTMethod from Python script?

[Phuong N. <phu...@em...>]

   Hi there!
  I have posted the same issue in the discussion forum but receive no response. Anyway, I'd like some help for the
following problem:

 I've written a Python script to call the XSLT Method to transform an existing XHTML document(comments_html) to a new
one, then I want to replace the old one with this new document (write to disk) after transforming. In my script, I
wrote:

  # Locate the source XHTML file in ZODB
  src_obj = context.comments_html

 # Call the XSLT method
 dst_tree = context.append_comment.transform('comments_html')    #not working!!!

 #Update the current comments_html 
 src_obj.manage_upload(dst_tree)

  where 'append_comment' is my XSLT method that is applied to 'comments_html'. However, it doesn't work for me when I
call this XSLT method from Python. I have no idea how to get the result tree (dst_tree) out from Python so that I can
pass its content to the manage_upload(), which will replace the current document's content. 

  Please note: It does work for me when I call this transformation from the ZPT:
  
 <span tal:replace="structure here/comments_html/append_comment">
      The document content is replaced here!
  </span>

 This returns the result tree with the format I want after transforming. I love to see this result from my Python
script too.

  Please help. Many thanks!

Phuong Nguyen

Research Associate
Spatial Information Architecture
School of Architecture and Design
RMIT University
email:  phu...@rm...