+1 on concatenating together all content sections that match the current
view, but ONLY IF it is added to the spec officially. Since multiple content
sections are such a new part of the spec anyway, I suspect that getting this
change made now is still possible, but Shindig isn't the only stakeholder in
the gadget spec.

On Jan 30, 2008 7:48 PM, John Hjelmstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Great question. Your expectation contains nearly the semantics I'd suggest
> and have implemented with one modification: the DEFAULT doesn't show up
> when
> view="bar". <Content> without view, or with view="" is equivalent to
> view="default". This facilitates shared code between the default content
> block and other views. Without it, the default block would have to stand
> on
> its own, while at the same time always being included in the alternate
> specified views.
>
> For a while I was a proponent of precluding repeated view definitions
> altogether, but this mechanism is an elegant way to accommodate shared
> code
> IMO. Thoughts?
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Arne Roomann-Kurrik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > What happens when multiple content sections specify the same view?
> >
> > <Content view="bar"> BAR </Content>
> > <Content view="foo, bar"> FOO+BAR </Content>
> > <Content> DEFAULT </Content>
> >
> > If the current view is "bar", what is the expected result?  (I would
> > expect
> > "BAR FOO+BAR DEFAULT", but wanted to get clarification)
> >
>

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