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

[John D. Heintz]

URIs are necessary here, are they?

See the Saxon XSLT examples for a package that uses Java class names.
http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.1/extensibility.html#Writing-extension-functions

John

On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:30, Jim Fulton wrote:
> Shane Hathaway wrote:
> > Jim Fulton wrote:
> > 
> 
> ...
> 
> >> I really don't think that the declaration adds anything but ceremony 
> >> in your example.
> > 
> > 
> > I agree.  But is it really safe to declare the extra-short acronym "sf" 
> > for all Zope users everywhere?  A lot of people would think of 
> > Sourceforge, since "http://sf.net" redirects you to sourceforge.net.
> 
> We'd probably want to pick a better name, like, uh, "format".
> 
> 
> > Declaring namespaces in a template makes it more self-contained.  If I 
> > want to know if I can use a template outside Zope, or in a different 
> > version of Zope, I have to know what APIs it depends on.  If the 
> > template declares namespaces, reuse is easier.  If *all* the templates 
> > I'm interested in reusing declare namespaces, reuse is much easier.
> 
> Adding the namespace ceremony doesn't make the template self contained.
> It won't work unless someone  has separately configured some code to
> implement the API.
> 
> The only thing the declaration gives you is the ability to use the
> same prefix for different APIs.
> 
> Jim
> 
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