[Zope3-dev] spelling of namespace signifiers

[Jim Fulton]

Matt Jacobus wrote:
> 
> Jim wrote:
> > >    http://server.tld/folder/container/--view--index.html
> >
> > Given discussion to date, especially Shane's comment about long
> > hyphens, this is my favorite. :)
> 
> Can you really not put the namespace identifier in a separate path
> component.
> 
>         http://server.tld/folder/container/--view--/index.html
> 
> This seems intuitive to me as the namespace appears to be another
> 'folder' in the tree (which it sort of is).
> 
> Yes, you'd have to back up with relative URLs to get to another
> namespace,

And do get to the content.

> but that still seems to make intuitive sense and you don't
> have to know the container name to do so:
> 
>         ../--etc--/index.html

Most people find ../ to be very unintuative, which is why we
worked so hard to get rid of urls like:

  aContact/info;view/index.html

There were really stenuous objections to the extra URL step.

Jim

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