[ZDP] Réf. : [ZDP] ZDP-Tools: Discussion about Book, P art and Chapter continued. art and Chapter continued.

kamon.ayeva@bureauveritas.com kamon.ayeva@bureauveritas.com
Mon, 24 Jan 2000 10:47:33 +0100


Maik Roeder:

>I would say that the content should be the smallest manageable piece of
information.
>We don't need to make the smallest manageable piece a paragraph, because
this
>would mean some explosion of objects, but I think if we define the
smallest piece
>of manageable information a DocumentFolder, then it is left open what size
it can
>have. In a Part it may be small, in a Chapter long, and in a Subchapter a
medium,
>but this is up to the author anyway.
>DocumentFolders can be placed inside Books, Parts, Chapters and
Subchapters. So, inside
>all these ZClasses, we collect all contained DocumentFolders and display
them. This way,
>for example a Chapter can be split into two DocumentFolders, which are
from two authors,
>and maybe it will be necessary to put them into a Subchapter for
themselves at one
>time in the future, so everything is open to change.
>
>So, Books, Part, Chapters and Subchapters are only Controllers who control
>the contained domain objects DocumentFolder.
>
>As I said earlier, what we have now is sufficient:
>
>Book
>Part
>Chapter

Hi,

I hope you had a good week-end.
Do we all agree now to have the Zope Book drafts collection design mirror
the XML file structure I originally created for ZCL (Part, Chapter) ?
Maybe you already agreed (I could have missed a post).

Regards,
Kamon