[Zope] - PROPOSAL: Rearrange Zope Documents

[Jim Fulton]

"Christopher G. Petrilli" wrote:
> 
> OK, this REALLY shouldn't be difficult, but I've tried every variation
> of '_' and everythign else I can think of, read the source, seen
> references to _p_mtime that don't seem to go anywhere... I'm obviously
> missing something hideously transparent...
> 
> How do I insert the time a document was last modified?
> 
> i.e. I wanna create standard_html_footer that has something like:
> 
> "Last modified: date here"
> 
> at the bottom.  I can't get anything to resolve correctly.


The problem is that Documents are not what you think they
are.  They are miss-named.  They should be called "DTML Methods".

There should be another kind of object called "DTML Documents"
that are meant to be the source of information, not a method.
They should have properties and search their own attribute namespace
before their folder's.  Then, when a DTML method, like 
standard_html_footer, was used in a DTML document, 
and had:

  <!--#var bobobase_modification_time-->

the modification time of the DTML document would be
inserted.

I propose, by the end of the Zope beta period to:

  - Rename Document to "DTML Method", 

  - Add a new object type, "DTML Document", and

  as a bonus:

  - Add a new object type, "Structured Text Document", 
    that would use Structured text input and allow DTML
    tags to be interspursed, possibly using the Python
    string format or some other less-verbose format than
    SSI.

Jim

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