GenericSetup and “mismatched” tags in ZCML

Ever the issue-magnet, I’ve spent the better part of my morning trying to debug a mistmatched tag error from within some ZCML (aka XML for the non-initiated).  Essentially, the issue boiled down to the system telling me that it was certain that I had a mistmatched tag within my configuration, and presented me with the problematic XML tag (complete with line numbers).  However, life’s not always that simple.

The traceback looked like this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
zope.configuration.config.ConfigurationExecutionError: xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: mismatched tag: line 6, column 70
in:
File "/home/david/buildout/src …

in Plone · Fri 12 March 2010

Deliverance, Plone, and tags

It’s been a little bit of time since my last post, and who can blame me with my site having been down for almost 2 full days over the last week!  I’m not paying that much for the webspace, thankfully, but if I was, I’d be seeing red over it.  Apparently some patch for MySQL broke everything; imagine how it looked to see my site with a ‘500 internal error’ plastered all over it and not being able to access my cPanel. Ugh.

Anyway, everything’s back again, assuming that you can see this.  Okay? Great!

Today …

in Plone · Fri 27 November 2009

Deliver me from … Deliverance?

Always one for being on and beyond the bleeding edge of new technology, I’ve (with the help of colleagues) been setting up a new technology for applying themes to web sites.  In particular, I’m applying Deliverance to Plone and whilst I’m not the first one to venture out into the wilderness this way, I’ve got to be thinking that I could be one of the few people documenting their experience.  Ah, but where to begin?

in Themes · Wed 02 September 2009

Plone: Buildout Won’t Install Products.OpenXml

UPDATE: Installation of Products.OpenXml appears to work happily with buildout when I’m using z3c.recipe.staticlxml to build lxml separately from having to easy_install or install system-wide packages.

So it’s almost Christmas time and I’m still slaving away working. It’s all about commitment.

Today in my life I’ve been trying to install the OpenXml product for Plone (using buildout, of course):

david@computer:~/buildout/instance$ ./bin/buildout
Uninstalling zopepy.
Uninstalling instance.
Updating plone.
Updating zope2.
Updating productdistros.
Installing instance.
Getting distribution for 'Products.OpenXml'.
Got Products.OpenXml 1.0.1.
Getting distribution for 'openxmllib' …

in Plone · Mon 22 December 2008