[Zope] Simplifying complex contexts/urls

[Chris Fassnacht]

I'm developing a site with Zope that has a lot of interlinking between
objects, and after clicking around for a while, the context (aka, the url
path in the browser's address display) gets really long and complex.  So
far, I haven't had any problems with it, but I do have two concerns.

1. It starts to look pretty ungainly.  This doesn't bother me too much, but
I don't know how users will respond.

2. There must be some limit on the length of the allowable url in the
browser's display.  What are the chances that an extended session of
clicking around will run into that limit?

So, I'm wondering if there's some way to automatically simplify a path to
its most elemental form.  For example,
www.mysite.edu/main/topicA/topicB/topicC/topicA/topicB becomes
www.mysite.edu/main/topicA/topicB.

Thanks.

Chris