[ZPT] Re: {Spam?} Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: TALES adapters and TAL/Tales variable namespaces

Casey Duncan casey at zope.com
Mon May 24 11:39:27 EDT 2004


On Mon, 24 May 2004 17:25:19 +0300
Steve Alexander <steve at z3u.com> wrote:

> 
> >>Of course, Steve suggested:
> >>
> >>   ob:adaptername       context:dc/title
> > 
> > 
> > This really doesn't make sense. To me it reads "In the namespace of
> > context get the title of dublin core".
> 
> I'm not reading ":" as having anything to do with namespaces.  Rather,
> I see '/' as the "traverse" operator, and ":" as the "adapt" operator.

Understood, that's just how it reads to me. Adapters are in a sense like
mini-namespaces, enough so that I think it is confusing to reuse the XML
namespace token here.

-Casey



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