[Zope] DTML tags

1 Jun 2000

      I was just wondering why the new style dtml tags don't seem to follow the 
XML standard. For example,

     <dtml-var standard_html_header>

can't be written as:

     <dtml-var name="standard_html_header"/>

or:

     <dtml-var name="standard_html_header"></dtml-var>

This seems to me (ignorant as I currently am of Zope's internals) an 
unnecessary restriction.

My speculation is not entirely idle. It would pave the way, for instance, 
to enabling end-users to utilise an XML editor to manage content, or allow 
specialised XML-enabled applications to output DTML content.

Can anyone throw any light on this?

Thanks.

David Trudgett