Hi, Daniel.Weber@SEMATECH.Org wrote:

<RANT> Well, after fixing about the hundredth instance in my code of dmtl instead of dtml, I have to ask the question - why the heck couldn't it be <z-var ...> instead of <dtml-var>? it's gotten to the point where I'm going to hack the code to spell-check for dmtl.... </RANT>

Not for me. No problem to type a bit. Since thinking about solution takes much more time than typing for me. And even a single char like z could be wrong typed :-) I think the readability is ok with "dtml". And its a nice sequence to type: left hand: d-t right hand: m-l Since there is also some html-code probably around your dtml-code, you have to type this code too without the chance to shorten it :-) And - last not least - you can make a macro with "<dtml-" or "&dtml." ... Regards Tino Wildenhain

Actually, it's pretty simple. The move from <!--#var to <dtml-var was largely inspired by a desire to play nicer with HTML editors that let you extend their tags. Think of it as namespaces in XML. There are lots of products that have their own tags, neatly prefaced with something to indicate that they belong to the product. Imagine, though, if all the products and projects on the web that did this reduced their prefixes to a single letter. The chance of collisions would go up significantly. In the end you're right -- it should be easy enough for you to hack the DTML machinery to look for any prefix you choose. --Paul Daniel.Weber@SEMATECH.Org wrote:

<RANT> Well, after fixing about the hundredth instance in my code of dmtl instead of dtml, I have to ask the question - why the heck couldn't it be <z-var ...> instead of <dtml-var>? it's gotten to the point where I'm going to hack the code to spell-check for dmtl.... </RANT>

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