[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope Book call for assistance

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi Chris,

--On Freitag, 6. Dezember 2002 21:27 -0500 Chris McDonough 
<chrism@zope.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 19:13, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
>> These are exactly the things you shouldn't neither do in DTML
>> nor in ZPT :-)
>
> What do you suggest people use for a templating language for email,
> JavaScript, SQL, etc?  I think it's too much to expect them to use
> Python to do this (esp. wrt SQL methods).

Oh, is it? I'd rather like to write %(name)s %(value)d
then <dtml-whatever value>
Recently I read the python-dbi spec and its very nice to see
what you could do with the above form. There are even
standard ways to do multiple querys or function calls.
(Hope I can contribute a product for this as time permits)

For E-Mail and Javascript templates I also find it less confusing
if I can use %(var)s form.

As a general solution for texts one can use "file" which has an edit
tab for several releases of zope now. Then use it like this:

context.thefile.read() % context.REQUEST.form

or whatever seems appropriate to get values from.

E-Mail even gets clearer with the solution since you can easyly
loop and do whatever instead of multiple <dtml-sendmail> tags.

Regards
Tino
>
>> I'd start the lessons with ZPT to only show static content
>> and may be macros.
>> Then the logical order would be introduction to python
>> scripts without HTML output - only show how they are
>> used to calculate and output simple values, lists,
>> dictionaries and so on.
>> Next chapter should show how one uses the scripts with
>> ZPT to provide output into HTML.
>> Then the usual things like Catalog, ZSQL, important
>> API parts, etc.
>>
>> Don't you think this would be clearer for the beginner?
>
> Sure.  I'd love to rewrite the entirety of the Zope Book.  But please
> notice that I'm asking for help finishing the existing chapters, so I
> don't think this is a realistic goal.
>
> - C
>
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