If you ignore everything after/including Problem #4, this paper transforms quite well if you just replace 'JSP' with 'DTML', 'Java' with 'Python', and 'WebMacro' with 'DTML-entity syntax' :-) &dtml-foo; (along with <dtml-let>) addresses most of the issues raised by the paper. The remainder already aren't *too* bad in DTML. Still, there are many times when I'd like to be able to do XSLT-style manipulation of pages rather than embedding stuff. ----- Original Message ----- From: Robb Shecter <shecter@darmstadt.gmd.de>
Let me qualify that: I don't mean to slam on the DHTML syntax. I just wanted to point out a current discussion going on in the Java world. What I meant by difficult is: I'm not too adept at DTML yet, and one thing that throws me is that there are apparently different "levels" of coding; some statement/commands have their own tags. Some are attributes of a tag. Some are written inside a string as the value of an attribute. And, I find the XML tag endings and dtml markers distracting.
Cheers, Evan @ digicool