[Zope3-dev] Pre-proposal: IDocument and friends

[Lalo Martins]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:22:38AM +0100, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> From: "Lalo Martins" <lalo@hackandroll.org>
> 
> I do not understand what the problem is that you try to outline in this
> "problems" section.
> 
> >   Requirements
> >
> >     1. Documents are primarily text,
> 
> If you assume images will be linked in from externally, then yes.

Even if it has a lot of embedded images (a case my proposal
doesn't cover), it's still "primarily" text.

>  >     with a tree-like structure.
> 
> And tables, which are not tree-like at all, and links.

Hmm? How so? HTML, for example, and DocBook, have nice tree-like
models that encompass tables and links.

Tables are very tree-like, actually. Tables contain sections
that contain rows that contain cells.

> Your proposal is not a bad idea, and a product like that could be very
> useful. It can never be the only type, or even the basic type of document
> for Zope 3. This is becuase the different representations will have
> differences that can not translate between the different formats. A user may
> want to do things in HTML that is not possible to do in your internal
> format.

Anything is possible with the format I proposed. Just define an
extension jargon, and presto.


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