[Zope3-dev] z.a.pagetemplate.engine and ITraverser

[Sidnei da Silva]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:04:07AM -0400, Fred Drake wrote:
| Just following up here since our IRC discussion isn't going to be
| obvious from someone just reading the list.
| 
| Sidnei, Steve Alexander, and me discussed this over on #zope3-dev and
| decided that before we make any changes, we need to clarify the
| difference between traversal of the URL path obtained from the request
| and internal traversal of the object graph.  Though similar, these are
| different things and will need to be treated a little differently in
| some cases.
| 
| I don't remember the specific names we came up with, but roughly
| IURLTraversable would be the traversable for URL paths, and
| IObjectTraversable would be for object graph traversal.  This would
| allow both forms of traversal to be obtainable via adaptation and
| allow the most flexibility for site developers who may want to make
| things look very different from how they're stored.
| 
| Sidnei, Steve, please correct me or clarify as needed; appearantly the
| IRC logs are lacking somewhat.

Sounds right for me. +1.

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