Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Idea: New Content Paradigm

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Posted by Tom Jackson on
a title is an attribute of the content, not the content itself

Yes, and I think the CR works great when you have a dominant chunk of data you want to call content. If you think in terms of data, each attribute, be it title or content, are equivalent. CR has chosen to make one attribute more important than the others. If you application has multiple equally weighted attributes, or if your content has a deeper structure you want to expose, the CR isn't going to work too well.

If the content were stored as xml or some other structured format, you could still create indexes, but you could also search for more specific information. I'm just pointing out that when you get outside the one big chunk of content paradigm, you start having to work to make you application use the CR.