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

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:27:28 -0500

This looks good.  It is much less scary than other syntax.  It looks 
similar to ZPT "python:" expressions, too.  I could deal with this.

Jon Whitener
Detroit Michigan USA

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> 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