[Zope3-Users] Re: Using metadata for description

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Florian Lindner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to allow the user to give items a short description, like for a link:
> 
> Name: Zope
> URL: http://zope.org
> Description: Homepage of Zope, a web application server
> 
> Is it wise to use the metadata description field for that purpose or 
> should I just add a TextLine attribute to the interface.

If this "description" has little or nothing to do with the actual item, 
but is only there for categorizing it or similar, I'd use the DublinCore 
'description' field.

> If it's good to use metadata: How can I directly use metadata from ZPTs?

Through the 'zope' TALES namespace, e.g. obj/zope:description. Not all 
DublinCore metadata is available through that, though. See 
zope.tales.interfaces.ITALESFunctionNamespace for a list of available names.

Philipp