Hi all -- I'm rather IRC-allergic, don't particularly love mailing lists, but apparently gmane should let me access this mlist via my newsreader (much, much better from my POV), so, let's see. With Rikard Anglerud, and help from Anders Hammarquist (aka Iko), we're developing a few web applications, and eventually a new framework for web applications, with/for AB Strakt's "CAPS" (see www.strakt.com), and we're basing our work entirely on nevow and other parts of twisted (CAPS already uses twisted for all communication among its layers, so the new approach already works much more smoothly than our "previous generation" web-apps based on Webware, IMHO). Over the last few days we moved our stuff from nevow's previous generation (the one that's part of quotient) to nevow's new, stand-alone incarnation. The amount of incompatible changes was staggering (serves us right for working with a new, hotly-developing framework, of course;-), but they do seem to be for the better, and we do have everything working again now (and having nevow as a stand-alone package does make the task of packaging it up with the rest of what CAPS needs _way_ easier, of course). I currently have _one_ serious problem understanding what's going on (or supposed to go on): nevow:data="whatever" directives. I don't understand the rules regarding WHEN this causes a lookup (e.g. of 'data_whatever' on a rend.Page subclass), WHAT it looks things up when it does do a lookup, WHEN it calls method 'data_whatever' thereafter, and with what arguments. Basically, I must be missing something important here -- it mostly feels that once I've used a nevow:data= directive, I lose control of what's going to happen and get nasty surprises. So, I'm gradually moving to using nevow.render= directives instead -- mixing the "model" aspect (getting the data on which rendering is to be based) with the "view" one (rendering it). Not nice, but with nevow.render I _do_ appear to have complete control, or maybe better expressed, _understanding_, of what's gonna happen... So, perhaps somebody can help me understand and use data directives in a more appropriate way? Thanks in advance! Alex