[Zopexmlmethods-devel] Re: [xml] python binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal() ?

[Brent M H. <br...@ec...>]

Craeg K Strong wrote:
>> I agree, that sounds like the right way to do it.  But does libxslt use
>> the XML catalog for import/include resolution?  I was under the
>> impression that it only happened for DTD lookups. 
> 
> 
> Not sure.  That would be unfortunate and unusual.  Most other products I 
> have seen use it for all.

I'll try to look into it.

>>> I will also be looking for interested parties to become committers 
>>> (hint, hint :)
>>
>>
>> Sure, I'd be happy to help out.  My SF ID is 'bmh' 
> 
> 
> That is great news!  I am a bit new to the protocol of all this.   
> Philipp is the other committer on this
> project so far.   I believe the next steps would be to provide a bit of 
> information in the way of
> background and particular areas/ideas where you would like to move the 
> project forward,
> and, of course, code speaks ;-)

OK let's see, background.  I'm the systems architect for the Connexions 
project at Rice University (http://cnx.rice.edu).  We have a repository 
of educational content modules in XML that we serve through Zope. 
Currently we use a home brewed XSLT Product for transformations, but I 
would like to use a more general tool.  Hence my interest in 
XMLTransform, and now ZopeXMLMethods.

As far as ideas/goals, my main goal is to make sure it works for our 
project :)  OK, I admit it's somewhat self-serving, but I expect others 
have similar needs to ours.

The first thing I needed was for ZopeXMLMethods to allow REQUEST 
variables to override stylesheet parameters.  I have a patch that seems 
to work pretty well (although it hasn't undergone extensive testing). 
I'll send another email describing it.

-- Brent

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