DTML / HTML and Emacs PSGML Mode

7 Jul 1999

      Dear fellow Zopistas,

I wonder if any of you are using Emacs psgml mode to edit DTML and HTML
documents for Zope.  Maybe you could give me a few tips.  I have two
questions in particular. They both arise from the fact that psgml only
wants to generate syntactically valid sgml code:

    1) Is there some trick to get psgml to work with files such as the following?

      <!--#var standard_html_header-->
      <h2><!--#var title_or_id--></h2>
      <p>
      This is the <!--#var id--> Document.
      </p>
      <!--#var standard_html_footer-->

       Really, I want psgml to act as if the file is in an enclosing
       <body>. From the documentation, it seems that using the variable
       sgml-parent-document might help, but my attempts to generate such a
       parent document were not successful.

    2) I do not understand how the <dtml-var> syntax fits into the HTML /
       XMLscheme of things. At first sight, it appears that, if I had a DTD
       that specified the dtml-var entities etc, then using psgml would be
       a really easy means to generate files in this syntax.  Does such a
       DTD exist?  If not, is it theoretically possible to capture the
       syntax with a DTD? 

--- Alastair

Alastair Burt

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