[Zope3-dev] Relative links

[Casey Duncan]

OTOH: If you use the BASE href insertion, then that really encourages 
ppl to use absolute urls, I think, and I think a bunch of calls to 
absolute_url probably negate any performance advantage to a silent redirect.

Now I remember the argument against this tho, and it has nothing to do 
with performance: How do you determine if a Zope object is a directory 
or not from this point of view? Remember that it is possible to create a 
document-like object in zope that acts a whole lot like a directory (it 
can contain subobjects).

I think to implement this effectively we might consider a marker 
interface (ICollection or somesuch) that marks the object as a 
collection from the publisher's point of view.

This might also help the same problem in WebDAV and FTP publishing. You 
could omit it in the case of an object that although it could contain 
certain subobjects, should be treated as a leaf node by the outside world.

Any thoughts?

-Casey