[Zope-CMF] Topics / Folders / URL Design

[robert]

I thing the workspace tool is your friend.
You have to download CMF from CVS to get it

Robert

sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:

>I was thinking about URL design issues this morning, and was wondering: has
>done anything like, or considered the possibility of extending the CMFTopic
>machinery to make Topics behave like Virtual Folders?
>
>>From a URL design perspective, it seems a bit strange to make users go to
>one URL path for Section Fronts (powered by Topics and topic_view skin
>method(s)) and then have URLs for linked content items use the physical
>containment path for access.
>
>If the point of Topics is to try and escape bounding the arrangement of
>content in terms of its physical containment, why not extend it to provide a
>proxy for traversal to an item as well?
>
>For example:
>
>http://foo.bar.com/sports/basketball/
>is the section front for a news site, powered by topic/subtopic...
>
>...it has a link to:
>http://foo.bar.com/News/Nov02/1234567.html
>...where News/Nov02 is its containment path.
>
>I would like the ability to have:
>http://foo.bar.com/sports/basketball/1234567.html 
>act as a proxy to the above content item; in certain skins, I would
>construct links in skin methods to point to this logical URL, because it
>makes more sense to a class of end-users of the web-site viewing the content
>from a purely logical, not physical, perspective.
>
>My thought is this: "When serving content: Where containment matters, use
>it.  Where containment confuses, don't."  Since object traversal is
>something malleable in Zope, this seems to make some level of sense, no?
>
>Comments, thoughts, suggestions?
>
>Sean
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