[Zope3-dev] spelling of namespace signifiers

[Steve Alexander]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Steve Alexander wrote:
> 
>>   1: You have to put a ./ before relative URLs
>>
>>      ./view::baz.html
> 
> Why?

Otherwise URL parsers in browsers get confused and think that "view" is 
a URL scheme.


>>   http://server.tld/folder/container/index.html;view
> 
> +1

Not available, as it obscures the filename extension.


> This problem sux, can't we ignore it an pretend it's gone away? ;-)
> 
> My own favourite, of course, is still:
> 
> http://server.tld/folder/container.html
> 
> ...of course. Can someone point out to me where this falls down?

Is "container.html" content, or is it a view?

If it is a view, are you willing to ensure that you won't have any 
content ever called "container.html" ?


You can arrange for a particular container to have a policy that removes 
or deals with the ambiguity. However, in other cases, there needs to be 
a way of explicitly signifying whether you're talking about content, or 
a view.

There's also the issue of other namespaces, such as the "etc" namespace 
for getting to services.

--
Steve Alexander