[Zope] - Re: [XML-SIG] RE: [Zope] - XML-style DTML code

[Paul Prescod]

"Fred L. Drake" wrote:
> 
>   In neither SGML nor XML can markup be nested like this.  The use of
> entities is the proper way to do this in either case.  Perhaps a
> processing tool needs to be available which can perform "entity
> expansion" for specified entity names only?

I discussed this a couple of months ago on the Zope list. I suggested that
they use XSL template syntax. It's more verbose but it separates the
levels more cleanly. The syntax for doing attributes would look something
like this:

<FONT>
   <xsl:attribute name="size">6</xsl:attribute>
   blah blah blah
</FONT>

The Zope equivalent would be:

<FONT>
   <zope:attribute name="size">6</zope:attribute>
   blah blah blah
</FONT>

IMHO, the current Zope syntax cannot survive into the "XML age." People
will want to author their templates in XML editors and Zope's illegal
syntax will prevent this.

 Paul Prescod  - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
 http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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