[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] ZConfig: Keytype and section type extension

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:52 PM 12/29/03 -0500, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

>Barry Warsaw writes:
>  > Since I didn't understand what keytype actually provided, even after
>  > reading the docs on it several times, I've never found a need for it
>  > <wink>.
>
>Sounds like I need to improve the docs for this.
>
>Changing the keytype allows different interpretations for keys.  The
>only thing required of keys at the lowest level of the parser is that
>keys do not contain spaces.  The "basic-key" datatype is used to
>create a case-insensitive handling to keys.  Setting keytype to
>"identifier" would require that all keys in sections of that type be
>Python identifiers, and would be case-sensitive.

That reminds me...  is there any way for section *names* to be 
case-sensitive, or at least case-preserving?  For example, if one were 
simulating Apache-style configuration like:

<Location /Foo/bar/Baz>
...
</Location>

Currently, IIRC, the '_name' attribute of the resulting section will be 
'/foo/bar/baz'.