Hello Crosbie, Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 11:50:33 AM, you wrote:
As a Zope newbie I'm presuming I should take on board what I've read in various Zope documentation about DTML being deprecated in favour of ZPT+scripts?
DTML is not being deprecated, it is still very useful for stuff like SQL, plaintext, email-formatting etc... The thing is, though : You will be very much more productive, and have *very much* cleaner designs and code with scripts + ZPT for html/xml applications :)
It's just that there doesn't seem to be a wealth of examples of how one goes about various things using ZPT, whereas there's plenty using DTML.
DTML has been around much longer.. - And *needs* a lot more examples.. More and more people move to ZPTs and you will get good help on the mailinglists, even if there are not as many howtos yet..
Don't tell me that I really do have to start using DTML.... do I?
no.. - don't even consider it for HTML/XML.. ZPT+Scripts is the path of light.. It might be useful for the things i mentioned above, though.. just my *personal* 2 cents.. others may (and will) be of totally different opinions.. :) -- Geir Bækholt geir@funcom.com Tools/HCI-developer Tools/Billing - Product Operations Funcom Oslo