On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:49:50AM -0600, Evan Simpson wrote: | Kevin Carlson wrote: | >Come on folks. There's nothing wrong with supporting two templating | >languages. Quite honestly, dtml is much easier to learn for most and | >has it's place in application development -- just as ZPT does. | | Quite true. DTML can be very handy for templating non-tag-based text. | | On the other hand, DTML has several misfeatures and drawbacks that ought | to be fixed, and leveraging TALES may be a good way to do it. For | example, instead of: | | <dtml-with x><dtml-with y><dtml-var z></dtml-with></dtml-with> | ...or... | <dtml-var expr="x['y'].z()"> | | ...we could have... | | <dtml-var name="x/y/z"> | | Another advantage would be the ability to control context, writing | "here/foo" to acquire a foo object and "request/foo" to get request | variable "foo". | | This was proposed way back when, but nobody has had the time to do it :-( Hey! I thought this was implemented/was planned to be implemented in Zope3. Anyone has an idea? []'s -- Sidnei da Silva (dreamcatcher) <sidnei@x3ng.com.br> X3ng Web Technology <http://www.x3ng.com.br> GNU/Linux user 257852 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Sid) 2.4.18 ppc If it has syntax, it isn't user friendly.