Hi folks, Just joined the Django mailing list. I am evaluating MVC frameworks for an upcoming development project. Have been testing with Rails but not entirely happy with it for a number of reasons. Then I found Django. I am very excited about its potential.
There are a couple of possible deal-breakers though. I was hoping someone could tell me about the extent of the XML support (either out-of-the-box in Django or at least as a Python library, which I am not familiar with). I am looking for XML import, XML publishing (from database content), XSLT processing, and XML-RPC. Secondly, it looks like Ajax integration hasn't been tackled yet. I read the Wiki page on this and was wondering if anyone was making progress yet. I hope that you don't mind but I've added a suggestion on this Wiki page to also check out the Zimba Ajax toolkit (in addition to Mochikit and Dojo): http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/AJAX The Zimba toolkit provides a number of really excellent GUI widgets. I know that Django's roots and primary audience is the web publishing/CMS community but incorporating an AJAX GUI widget library like Zimba's could really become a major draw for those of us working on the border between cms and enterprise type information systems. Thanks in advance for any advice. I look forward to taking Django for a test drive soon. Merry Christmas! peter
