I think the original poster is interested in <!-- XXX --> acting just like <dtml-comment>XXX</dtml-comment> for purposes of being more brief and doing less typing. I don't think there is any way to do this, unfortunately. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Jason Earl [mailto:jason.earl@simplot.com] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 12:46 PM To: Asad Habib Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Standard HTML Comments Asad Habib <ahabib@engin.umich.edu> writes:

Does anyone know why standard HTML comments are rendered in the output by a DTML method when it is executed? I know that using the DTML comment tag is a way around this problem, but for the sake of consistency I would like to continue to use HTML standard comments in DTML methods if possible. Is there something I can do to make the method ignore them? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

-Asad

When I used to use DTML, I used to do stuff like this all of the time: <!-- Start Header --> <dtml-var custom_header> <!-- End Header --> That when when I had problems with the rendered output I would have a better idea which DTML method was wrecking my day. Is this what you mean? A quick test shows that you can do stuff like: <!-- stupid <dtml-var document_id> comment --> Stuff like this is pretty easy to test. Just create a DTML method and start sticking in comments. Jason _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )