[Zope-dev] DT_Var, DT_Util questions.

[Andreas Kostyrka]

Reading over DT_Var, I've noticed the following:

    # The rest are depricated:
    'sql-quote': sql_quote,
    'html-quote': html_quote,

So how do I express the meaning of <!--#var name html_quote--> without the
html_quote subtag?

I'm asking this, because I'm currently developing a generalised Spooling
mechanism, and because of the intended usage, I planned to produce 
something like this:

<!--#spool ls_zwax_2-->
\documentclass[a4paper]{dinbrief}
\usepackage{mtgbrief}
\begin{document}
\date{<!--#var date_to_print tex_quote-->}
\begin{letter}{<!--#var adr_name tex_quote--> \\
...
<!--#/spool-->

Ok, so the tex_quote format should be probably declared in a seperate
package, because people who don't spool LaTeX documents don't need it, but
what is the correct way to provide this functionality?

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Another question, what is the correct way to parse any argument type with 
DT_Util.parse_params? (Or what other function to use?)

At the moment, I'm stuck with

<!--#spool faxqueue_zwax arg1="<!--#var faxno-->"-->

I'd prefer to allow queues to take arbitrary named arguments as in

<!--#spool faxqueue_zwax faxno="<!--#var faxno-->"-->

Andreas
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