XMLTransform enables Zope users to associate an XSLT transformer with an XML document that automatically renders the result of the transformation when called. It can behave like either a Page Template or a DTML Method. There are no constraints on the type of Zope objects used for the XML or XSLT. In fact, the content may cobbled together from multiple sources, as long as the final content may be obtained as well-formed XML from a single object for each.

The XMLTransform product adds three separate objects to the "Add" menu in the Zope Management Interface:

• XML Transform
• XML Transform Cache Manager
• XML Transform Registry

XMLTransform features a pluggable architecture that makes it possible to dynamically choose between different XSLT Processors at runtime. It currently works with any of the following combinations:

• PyXML 0.66 and 4Suite 0.11.1
• PyXML 0.7.1 and 4Suite 0.12.a3
• libxml2 2.4.26 and libxslt 1.0.22 (Python bindings)
• Pyana 0.6
• Sablotron 0.96 and Sab-Pyth 0.52

(See README for more details).

An XMLTransform is a Zope object that links an XML document to a desired XSLT script. The XMLTransform automatically runs the XSLT transformation and renders the results when accessed through DTML or page templates.

An XMLTransform object contains neither the XML source document nor the XSLT transformer. Instead, it obtains each of them from two separate Zope objects, whose IDs are recorded as properties. In this way, an XMLTransform object represents an association between an XML document and a transformer.

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