[Zope3-dev] Re: Page Architecture: Term suggestions

[Jim Fulton]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Paul Everitt wrote:
> 
>> Tonico Strasser wrote:
>>
>>> the Wiki is closed for comments, so I'll post it here.
>>>
>>> We could borrow terms from the W3C.
>>>
>>> e.g: Page ---> Document
>>>      Pagelet ---> DocumentFragment
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/core.html#ID-1590626201 
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>>
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>> +1 from me, as long as the resulting discussion about what we want 
>> remains consistent with the W3C definitions.
> 
> 
> -1 from me
> 
> I don't think DOM Document and DocumentFragment are consistent with what 
> I perceive to be desired. Are there definitions of 'Page' and 'Pagelet' 
> somewhere?

http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/UIPresentation

Here the definition of "Page" is implicit.

See also:

http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/PageArchitecture

> The DOM core definition talks about XML trees. You can have a whole tree 
> (a Document) and part of a tree (a DocumentFragment). There are other 
> W3C recommendations that probably use different language. The whole 
> pagelet stuff I believe is far more about layout and presentation 
> concerns, something the DOM core is not about. I think it would be 
> confusing to use these DOM terms.

Well said. I agree.

Note that an important additional concern is the need to manage
resources (e.g. javacript libraries or tool bars) needed by
multiple components of a page.

Jim

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