[Zope-CMF] Types, meta_type, content_meta_type, etc...

[Tres Seaver]

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 13:00, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> seb bacon wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 15:59, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> >>The title of a TypeInformation should often match its Zope ID (but only 
> >>in English).  The title of a TypeInformation might be used to prefill 
> >>the Type field of new instances.
> >>
> > 
> > ..so all the code in TypesTool which depends on Type() to to do
> > application logic should change?
> 
> That sounds right.  Type() is presentation.

Not quite;  'Type()' could be interpreted that way, but that is *not*
the semantic it currently has.

For a content object, 'Type()' is *metadata*, not presentation;  it
signals very strongly how humans are to interpreet the resource.
DublinCore actually recommends that it be drawn from a controlled
vocabulary:

  http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dces/#type

While we don't follow their specific cross-domain vocabulary, the
current use of 'Type()' (for content) in CMF *does* follow this sense.

The 'Type()' of a TypeInformation object is currently mis-defined
to return the TIO's title/id;  this is *wrong*, because the Title
of a TIO *is* presentation (it should be localizable, for instance).
The *desired* implementation would be always to return the ID for
a TIO's 'Type()', which should always be identical to the 'Type()'
of instances which are created from it.

Tres.
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