[Zope-dev] Re: {Spam?} Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: TALES adapters and TAL/Tales variable namespaces

[Jim Fulton]

Steve Alexander wrote:
> 
>>> Of course, Steve suggested:
>>>
>>>   ob:adaptername       context:dc/title
>>
>>
>>
>> This really doesn't make sense. To me it reads "In the namespace of
>> context get the title of dublin core".
> 
> 
> I'm not reading ":" as having anything to do with namespaces.  Rather, I 
> see '/' as the "traverse" operator, and ":" as the "adapt" operator.

Right, and the "adapt" operator can be thought of as a specialized form of traversal.

Jim

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