Better access to APIs in paths (was Re: [Zope3-dev] needing views clues - template/title troubles)

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:00:39 -0500

Stuart Bishop wrote:
> On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 01:23  AM, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>>   context/++view++foo
>>   context/@@foo
>>   context/++api++title
>>   context//title
>>   context/++/title
>>
>> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> For ZPT (which I think deserves a special case because of its target 
> audience):
>     <h1 tal:content="dc:context/title"/>
> or for a shortcut to the most common case, just
>     <h1 tal:content="dc:title"/>

I want to spell it like this:

<html tal:namespaces="dc http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/;
                       zope http://namespaces.zope.org/zope">
<head>...</head>
<body>
<p>The title of this document is
<span tal:content="here/dc:title">Some Title</span>.</p>
<p>Its path in Zope is
<span tal:content="here/zope:path">Some Path</span>.</p>
</body>
</html>

This would be pretty much the perfect syntax IMHO.  The use of a colon 
in the middle of a path expression is not a problem, since the slash 
before the namespace qualifier distinguishes the expression as a path 
expression.

It would align well with W3C conventions, at the same time giving us 
terse, clean representations of very common operations.

What do others think?

Shane