[Zope] - Ann: Zope Zen Revealed

[Ross Gohlke]

Quoted from the Zen of HTML Methods:

Soon Zope will have a new type of Document which is not a Method. These 
new Documents will hold content. They will be normal Zope objects with 
properties. What will make them unlike Document Methods is that they will 
not be bound to Folders; they will provide their own rendering context.
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If I understand this correctly (not sure, being a Zope newbie), this will 
provide a lateral element to Zope. Currently it seems Zope is bound by 
the tree metaphor. You have to trace back through the hierarchy. Will 
these new Documents be available laterally? That is, across the tree?

Or am I getting my metaphors mixed? I'm coming from Frontier, which has 
NO real lateral functionality.

In Frontier, if I want one subfolder to be "aware" of a subfolder clear 
across the tree, for purposes of rendering links, I have to store ALL 
link calls in the main directory or subfolder A won't see subfolder Z.

Ross Gohlke, aka Mojo Maverick
        
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