DTML support will be retained and even improved in the future. the difference in DTML- and ZPT-support is simply how much time we are spending on it. more time is going into ZPT because we use it more extensively internally and the take-up in the community seems to indicate the same is true for a large part of zope developers out there.
For me, that reads pretty close to "DTML is on its way out and ZPT on its way in."
No it reads what it says. DTML works.
DTML is as valid and future-proof a templating system for zope as ZPT is.
Sorry, I gotta point out how crazy that is... Have you tried maintaining DTML you wrote 2 years ago when you didn't know you had to be really careful about using ""?
Yes, and bad DTML is hard to maintain. Im sure we are going to see some really ugly ZPT that is hard to maintain. So is really badly written Python. The main reason DTML from 2 years ago sucked was the lack of Python Scripts in the days when you either wrote DTML or a Product. -- Andy McKay