On 10/16/05, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luke Arno wrote: > > >This has been mixed up into other threads in various > >ways so I am just trying to distill the fundamental issue. > > > >What do we need to represent introspection? > > > >Let us put aside the issue of using XHTML or inventing > >new XML formats and speak in concepts. > > > >Do we want: > > > >1) nestable collections that are containers? > > > > > > > -1 > > >2) nestable containers that can contain collections? > > > > > > > define "container". >
I would call service and workspaces "containers", analogous to folders. Collections would be analogous to mbox files. (I forget who first made this analogy first, Thomas or Eric.) > >3) just a list of collections - no nesting? > > > > > > > depending on the definition of "container" in #2, +1 > I am with you (if we are understanding each other, and I think we are.) This feels clean and familiar to me. Rob is making a pretty clear demonstration that this is not how things are being done in the wild, however - Luke
