[Zope3-Users] Re: Using metadata for description

Florian Lindner mailinglists at xgm.de
Thu May 5 10:38:00 EDT 2005


Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2005 08:40 schrieb 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.

Mmmhh, not easy to tell...  ;-)
How would you solve the case above? The user just uses it to describe it, The 
application itself makes no use of it.


Florian

>
> > 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
>
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