Ah, this I find a nice, correct and good explenation! Thanks for letting us to see inside-your-spaghetti-alike-mass-kept-together-with-the-help-of-your-skull. (Please, don't think anything behind this comment). I find you were correct to make these syntax descission. Hope this will end discussion about new syntax. Although, some documentation would be nice. wink :-). Tom.
I'd like to clarify a point that keeps coming up in the DTML syntax discussion, namely, the use of a hyphen, rather than a colon, as the prefix delimiter for DTML tags in the new DTML syntax.
The existing DTML syntaxes are *not* XML compliant. DTML code is not XML well-formed in a whole host of ways. We absolutely intend, probably in the near future, to provide an XML variant of DTML. I think that there will always be XML and non-XML variants of DTML.
When coming up with the new DTML syntax, I chose not to use a colon because I thought, and still think, that using a colon would imply XML compatability that simply wasn't there. Further, in the future, I want it to be easy to distinguish between XML and non-XML versions of DTML code.
So, in summary, the new DTML syntax doesn't use a colon because it isn't XML. The future XML-variant *will* make use of XML namespaces and will use colons (e.g. <dtml:in>....).
Jim
Note that an advantage of the XML DTML syntax will be that people will be able to use whatever nick-name they want for DTML tags. People will be able to use '<dtml:in>', '<z:in>', '<jim:in>', '<zope-is-the-coolest-thing-since-sliced-bread:in>' or whatever. <jim:wink>
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