[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.5 Edition)/Advanced Page Templates

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        Here are a couple practical tips that you may find
        useful. Some times you'd like to repeat a tag, but not have an
        enclosing tag. For example, you might want to repeat a number
        of paragraph tags, but there is no need to enclose them in
        another tag. You can do this with the 'tal:omit-tag'
        statement::

          <div tal:repeat="quote here/getQuotes"
               tal:omit-tag="">
            <p tal:content="quote">quotation</p>
          </div>

          % Anonymous User - Apr. 12, 2002 6:26 pm:
           typo
           ...Some times you'd...
           s/Some times/Sometimes/

          % Anonymous User - Apr. 29, 2002 1:21 pm:
           Instead of making references to describing this later in the chapter, why not move the entire omit=tag
           discussion to that later point. There is no advantage to starting the "repetition tips" with a lesser-used
           feature that is not buing built upon in the intervening examples. Also, please explain why there is advantage
           to omitting a span tag other than eliminating 13 characters of html overhead and a moment of browser time to
           ignore the tag. Doesn't a <span tal:replace=... accomplish the same thing?

          % Anonymous User - Sep. 20, 2002 2:31 pm:
           There is indeed a reason for this! omit-tag is really useful in certain situations. For example, in the
           recursive use of ZPT/TAL as a stylesheet for an XML DOM. As you are walking DOM nodes in element.childNodes
           in an XML via tal:repeat structure, it can get quite excessive to have half-a-dozen span tags ouptut in the
           resulting HTML within a single paragraph tag, but this is what happens if you have <em> and <b> tags output
           from related XML tags in the DOM. The browser is fine, but start doing the math: one document with 20-40
           paragraphs times 5 instance of span tags times 13 bytes. Could be a few kilobytes of bloat!