On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 04:11:09PM -0600, Jim Sanford wrote:
I like to comment my code and I find myself wanting something a little more flexible than the <dtml-comment></dtml-comment> convention.
What I think would be nice would be a way to embed a comment into any dtml tag.
Here is my suggestion:
<dtml-var some_money_variable fmt='dollars-and-cents' // everything from the double slash to the ending greater than bracket is a comment>
I program a lot of javascript and am acustomed the // for comments, but any kind of simple trigger is fine by me.
Feedback?
I agree...<dtml-comment> has some problems, especially in this situation: <dtml-if foo> Hello </dtml-if> You can't comment out the parts of the if like this: <dtml-comment><dtml-if foo></dtml-comment> Hello <dtml-comment></dtml-if><dtml-comment> because Zope evidently uses some type of strict XML-parsing thing on the code. IMHO, <dtml-comment> should be mothballed in favor of something easier to type that isn't a tag. I've been using HTML comment syntax lately, because it lets me do stuff like: <!-- <dtml-if foo> --> Hello <!-- </dtml-if> --> or <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('pi', 3.14"><!--only accurate to two digits--> -- Stephen Pitts smpitts@midsouth.rr.com webmaster - http://www.mschess.org