Jeff Bauer writes:
Now that Andrew Kuchling has open pandora's box by describing in explicit detail how to "roll your own" dtml tags, it might be a good time to discuss how to protect "tagspace". Otherwise, Digital Creations may produce future dtml tags that will stomp user-defined tag names, if this becomes a popular pastime. A simple convention for tag names prefixed by <whatever> could be reserved for user designation.
It would be worth figuring out if adding tags is the way to go, though; perhaps it's better to simply create objects and call methods on them. But I'm paralyzed by the fact that I don't really know how to do that: if document A is being processed, and object B is in the same folder, how do I call one of B's methods through DTML? -- A.M. Kuchling http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/ But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. -- Bruce Leverett, "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"