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

[John D. Heintz]

Ug, I meant:


On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:38, John D. Heintz wrote:
> URIs are necessary here, are they?
URIs aren't necessary here, are they?

Sorry for the accidental sarcasm... ;-(

> 
> 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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