[Zope3-dev] Re: Views on Views ;-)

[Jim Fulton]

Chris Withers wrote:
> 
> Jim Fulton wrote:
...

> > > Secondly, saying that the :: bit isn't important 'cos you'll never use it on containers
> > > isn't true, certainly in some of the usecases I can think of :-S
> >
> > I said you don't need :: on non-containers. I'd say this is true. What use
> > cases would dictate ::?
> 
> Having a view on a container that returned a downloadable file, from the use
> case we discussed before:

I said you don't need :: non *non*-containers or when the container and view
namespaces don't overlap.
 
> acl_users/view::xls.xls
> 
> then there'd also be the normal html view, and probable an editing form + method
> view as well...
> 
> Am I missing something here?

I don't think you are reading what I'm saying.  In the example
above, do the user id namespace and the view namespace overlap?
If so, you need ::. If all the user ids were numbers, you wouldn't
need to qualify views.

Jim

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