You can, more or less. DTML will disregard unknown tags, as will most HTML rendering engines (XML is another matter). So go ahead and changed <dtml-if> to <xdtml-if> and watch it get ignored. Note that this is not a true dtml-comment, as the code between tags will still appear in your output, but it's a handy trick for finding logic problems. But I would like to have a smaller alias for dtml-comment, too. Truthfully, what I would really like is a 'Comments' tab in the ZMI for every object allowing me to store adminstrative docs in the objects. And it would be really great if I had a chocolate ice cream cone right about now, preferrably in a waffle cone. There. Now we are well and truly off-topic.
-----Original Message----- From: Jorge O. Martinez [mailto:jmartinez@eMediaMillWorks.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:31 AM To: Chris McDonough Cc: Jim Penny; Charlie Reiman; zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] DTML, Zope and Regex
Chris McDonough wrote:
Looks like the security issue may be stepping on the usability
issue's toes,
which ultimately may interfere into wider adoption as developers
with access to
their own boxes will be more likely to go for Zope than developer
relying on
ISP's.
I think the problem is not having anybody with a determination to focus on TTW scripting usability and lobby for some cohesive proposal on dev.zope.org that would make it better for some future revision of Zope. Regexes aren't the only thing that are annoying to not have in TTW scripts, and thought needs to be given to what gets included by default, and someobody needs to drive that effort. "Not it!" ;-)
On a different subject, but still with the usability issue for developers, I was thinking it would be nice to have some easier to use comment system for DTML code, for example for:
<dtml-if foo> something here </dtml-if>
now you have to use the rather long <dtml-comment> </dtml-comment>, it would probably nice if you only had to do:
<//dtml-if foo> or <#dtml-if foo>
And that would comment out all the code within that dtml tag. We could still use the <dtml-comment> tag for multi-tag commenting out.
Anyhow, I know I am off the topic here, I just brought it up before I forget. Thanks to all who replied; sure helps enhance ZopeZen ;-)
Regards,
Jorge M.
- C
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