WebMetaTopics

The topics which are included in a web and which contain information that describe the web or control how it works. These topics include:

• WebPreferences
• WebNotify
• WebTopicEditTemplate
• WebStatistics

Only WebPreferences must be known in advance as any other files that are used as meta information can be listed in that file or resolve to a known default. The collection of all such WebMetaTopics in all Webs is a "Bag" as topic names are typically duplicated. If SubWebs are to be allowed in a given NameSpaceWeb, then it must be allowed that these topic names are duplicated.

It may be noted that except for convenience and historical inertia, there is really no reason to keep these topics in the web that they control. In many systems, such meta information is kept strictly "out-of-band". If you leave these in-band, i.e. in the same pool of topics that exist in a given web, then some special processing MAY be is necessary.

-- RaymondLutz - 09 Jan 2004