[Zope-dev] DISCUSS: XHTML Templates proposal

Phillip J. Eby pje@telecommunity.com
Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:48:48 -0500


At 02:02 PM 9/15/00 +0100, Toby Dickenson wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:28:40 -0400, Paul Everitt <paul@digicool.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Note On Jargon
>>
>>  The choice of term for the presentation object has been contentious.
>>  Right now the list of choices include: template, view, page, or
>>  stylesheet.  This proposal doesn't make the decision on the jargon.
>>  Rather, the tier is usually refered to as the presentation.  When a
>>  choice has to be made, such as the Architecture section, Template is
>>  used as the temporary choice.
>
>so-obvious-you-might-not-have-thought-of-it...... 'Presenter'
>

Other candidates might include:

Format
Layout
Formatter

IMHO, view, page, and stylesheet don't make the grade due to
conflicts/confusion with unrelated technologies (e.g. MVC, "server pages",
CSS, etc.).