Jeffrey P Shell: Objects and the WebZope, SOAP, WebObjects, Servlets, .NET, Pink.Organization Objects- June 10, 2002 Ken Manheimer has also posted a proposal (a little bit dated) about what he calls Organization Objects, and a really good companion paper about the motivations for organization objects. The motivations paper discusses how the parentchild and table of contents relationship(s) were done for ZWiki, and how Organization Objects (which bear similarity to XLink) would have benefited the application. A bullet point in the Organization Objects proposal that I really liked is: Living with only links..http://radio.weblogs.com/0106123/categories/objectsAndTheWeb/2002/06/10.html#a127 ZWiki and logical structures.- June 10, 2002 ZWiki is a sehr-cool beast, as far as Wikis go. A very attractive feature, seen all over the Zope.org web site is Ken Manheimer's work on pageparenting relationships. This makes it so that Wiki pages, although stored in a flat namespace (all in one folder) can appear to be hierarchical, depending on which page generated which page (parenting can be altered of course). This in turn leads to cool things, like a structured table of contents (see the Zope 3 wiki's TOC Here). It's especially...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106123/categories/objectsAndTheWeb/2002/06/10.html#a126 Intent, and human editable XML.- June 5, 2002 There's been an interesting debate on the "Zope" 3 development list about ZCML - the new Zope 3 configuration language. The debate ultimately seems to be over what I view as "human readable" XML versus "machine friendly" XML. There is a lot of power and usefulness in XML, but the proliferation of namespaces and unknown attribute handling has taken the human out of it, I think. Intent gets lost. Anyways, they're sticking with the current ZCML format, which can be seen in practice here. It's.http://radio.weblogs.com/0106123/categories/objectsAndTheWeb/2002/06/05.html#a125 |