At 17:55 2002-09-11 +0200, Josef Meile said:
Hi,
We've been giving some thought to the best way of informing people about Zope. An outline of the ground we plan to cover is at:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/projects/cms/zope/ucisa-sg/mythz.htm
It's interesting, but there is something that worries me:
Documental Template Markup Language (DTML) is now deprecated in favour of Zope Presentation Templates (ZPT). DTML, as well as being "proprietary", often lead to code that was hard to maintain. ZPT allows for a much better separation of presentation and logic (the logic being done in Python or Perl). Moreover, ZPT is XHTML compliant and can be edited with a wide range of tools.
Is it true? Does it mean that future versions of Zope won't support DTML?
The reputation of its death (DTML) is widely exaggerated. TAL doesn't replace DTML, for instance is TAL not well suited for non-tagged markup (such as mail messages and ZSQL Methods). This has been very clearly state from Zope Corp from the beginning of TAL. At the moment it also seems like DTML has an performance advantage over TAL. DTML use the right way can separate presentation and logic equally efficient as TAL, which has been one of the reasons TAL was developed. DTML still doesn't solve being cross-platform in HTML-editing environments, but as some environments can support DTML (for instance Dreamweaver) this is not always a necessary. Personally I think TAL is a brilliant idea, but DTML is still easier to use and faster to learn than TAL. That bounds for it to stay around for a while. Regards, Johan Carlsson -- Torped Strategi och Kommunikation AB Johan Carlsson johanc@torped.se Mail: Birkagatan 9 SE-113 36 Stockholm Sweden Visit: Västmannagatan 67, Stockholm, Sweden Phone +46-(0)8-32 31 23 Fax +46-(0)8-32 31 83 Mobil +46-(0)70-558 25 24 http://www.torped.se http://www.easypublisher.com