[Zope] - PROPOSAL: Rearrange Zope Documents

[Jim Fulton]

Amos Latteier wrote:
> 
> I agree to renaming DTML Methods, but I think a different approach should
> be taken to Documents. I think we should think more generally in terms of a
> Content object that can have different encodings like XML, plain text,
> structured text, XML, HTML, and did I mention XML.
> That way we don't need a separate type of Object for each separate type of
> content.

What makes  Content object different from a DTML document?  Is it just
a content-type property?

I would expect XML objects to have much more structure than, say, 
plain text or even HTML.  For example, I imagine XML objects providing
a navigation interface of some kind.
 
> As a bonus if Content objects work well, Products like Confera could hold
> their content in standard Content objects, and so it would be much easier
> for different types of Products to exchange data.

But this implies that Content objects have structure.  Do you 
imagine that Content objects have sub-objects?  Are they foldoids?
Would they provide a mechanism for setting limitations on what
kinds of objects could be sub-objects?

I think that a driving need that alot of people have expressed
is a *simple* mechanism for handling textual content with
properties and DTML markup.  I'd like to meet that basic need.

Jim

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