Erk... meant this for zope-dev :-S Chris Withers wrote: > > Hello... > > Okay, I'm still staring up at the ZPatterns learning cliff as I write > this so forgive my ignorance. > > I'm looking at ZPatterns WRT to 'dynamically generated dataskins'. > > You what? Well, okay, I'll try and explain... > > Firstly, I'm assuming that DataSkins (or their subclasses?) are > first-class zope objects, can be 'added', copied, pasted, have security > tabs, can be catalogued, URL traversed, etc, etc. Is that assumption > correct? > > I hope so :-S > > If it is, is there something which can generate DataSkins on the fly? > ie: in the same way an AttributeProvider supplier attributes to an > object, is there something like a 'DataSkin provider' which provides > whole dataskins to a folderish object? > > Finally, and this is the important bit. Can one of these folderish > objects also _be_ a DataSkin? So, to word it differently, there is a > root 'DataSkin provider'. This provides DataSkins which are folderish > and are also 'DataSkin providers' themselves. > > Why do I want this? Well, think objects in a tree where the > parents/children are stored as a list of names refering to other > objects. In addition, objects may have multiple parents, etc... > > Any ideas? Where should I start reading? > > cheers, > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )