[Zope3-dev] Final(?) "Safe" Character List

[Jim Fulton]

A bunch of us here in Fredericksburg discussed this at our 
weekly "Jam" session and came up with some interesting ideas.

First, I'll suggest that while there are a lot of namespaces
that could show up in URLs, a small number will be common in "outside"
URLs, as opposed to URLs used by site managers and component developers.
Currently, these are the view namespace and the create namespace. For these, 
the following hieroglyphics are kinda nice:

@@ for views:

  http://foo.com/folder1/folder2/@@/ManageRolesAndPermissions.html

or:

  http://foo.com/folder1/folder2/@@ManageRolesAndPermissions.html

which I like.

+ for create:

  http://foo.com/folder1/folder2/+/Document/

to accsess a UI for adding a document. I actually, want 
the screen that collects the content type to be added to
also collect the content id so you'd have:

  http://foo.com/folder1/folder2/+/Document=mydoc/

I don't like options that add a path step, due to the
way that mucks up relative references (and things like
internal path computations). I don't mind in the case of
+, because that's very specialized (I think) case.

I'm beginning to like Guido's suggestion of using ++
as a general namespace marker, as in:

  http://foo.com/folder/++etc++Services/

So, here's a suggestion:

1. The generalized syntax is:

     ++namespace++name

   as in:

     http://foo.com/folder/++etc++Services/

2. For the creation framework:

     +/type

   is a non-english short-hand for:

     ++create++type

   For example:

     http://foo.com/folder1/folder2/+/Document=mydoc/

   is a non-english short-hand for:

     http://foo.com/folder1/folder2/++create++Document=mydoc/

3. For views:

     @@viewname

   is a non-english short-hand for:

     ++view++viewname

   For example:

     http://foo.com/folder/@@ManageRolesAndPermissions.html

   is a non-english short-hand for:

     http://foo.com/folder/++view++ManageRolesAndPermissions.html

Thoughts?

Jim   


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