Re: [Zope] ANNOUNCE: EXPERIMENTAL DTML Syntax change

15 Jun 1999

      Jim Fulton wrote:
...
Zope 2.0.0 alpha 2 (and public CVS) includes an experimental change to the
DTML parser to allow HTML tags syntax and character entity reference as
an alternative to the server-side-include (SSI) syntax.  Basically, source
like:
<!--#var standard_html_header-->
  <ul>
    <!--#in objectValues-->
      <li> <a href="<!--#var URL1-->/<!--#var id-->/manage_workspace">
           <!--#var title--></a>
    <!--#/in-->
  </ul>
  <!--#var standard_html_footer-->
to be written as:
<dtml-var standard_html_header>
  <ul>
    <dtml-in objectValues>
      <li> <a href="&dtml-URL1;/&dtml-id;/manage_workspace">
           <dtml-var title></a>
    <dtml-/in>
  </ul>
  <dtml-var standard_html_footer>
This format is provided to overcome some of the problems
with the SSI syntax:
- It looks more like and fits in with HTML,
I like the idea, but I disagree that 
     <dtml-/in>
looks and feels like HTML.  A more natural end tag for 
     <dtml-in>
would seem to be
      </dtml-in>

Is there a reason for your choice?

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