[Zope3-dev] Re: proposed changes to contained helper functions

[Shane Hathaway]

Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> Shane Hathaway writes:
>  > Giving a unique name to each child serves the purpose of making all 
>  > children potentially addressable via URL.  That's one of the sweet spots 
>  > of Zope; it makes the system discoverable and clear.  I think a decision 
>  > to not use this pattern should be weighed carefully.  In particular, if 
>  > an object is not addressable via URL, it is quite difficult to provide a 
>  > Web user interface for it or any of its descendants.
> 
> He's right not to use names here; the DOM is well-defined.  Exposing
> individual node of the DOM directly via Zope is questionable (IMHO),
> but I don't know if that's what he's doing.

I'm not suggesting that DOM nodes must be accessible via URL, but I am 
saying that the effort of making children addressable pays off quickly. 
The specific case of DOM nodes may be an exception to the rule, although 
previous Zope/XML projects have indeed attempted to map the DOM to URLs.

Shane