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>
MUCH better! This is pretty much the way Allaire does it with CFML tags,
so teaching Homesite and dreamweaver to support/ignore these tags will
probably be a lot easier.

And thank you for removing the 'line noise'. You might (MIGHT) want to
consider requiring an enclosing '<dtml-eval>' tag around the environment
variables, though:

   <li> <dtml-eval><a
href="&dtml-URL1;/&dtml-id;/manage_workspace"></dtml-eval>

Leaving them 'naked' doesn't feel right.

01 (just my two bits)

Michael Bernstein.