[Zope] DTML reformulated as XML (was RE: [Zope] <% ... %> ?)

[Jim Fulton]

Otto Hammersmith wrote:

(snip)

> > 3) Zope syntax might not be mappable into XML.
> 
> Close, but not quite.  I'm sure it's possible to create an XML syntax
> that has all the functionality of DTML...

Yup.

> however, it might very well
> end up being an ugly unwieldy syntax.

If someone found the XML flavor of DTML unwieldy, then I'm quite
sure that they would find XHTML unweildy too.
 
(snip)
> The if gets really strange when you start adding 'elif' and 'else'
> clauses.

Nah:

  <dtml:choose>
    <dtml:if expr="x==1">
       ....
    </dtml:if>
    <dtml:if expr="x==2">
       ....
    </dtml:if>
    <dtml:else>
       ....
    </dtml:else>
  </dtml:choose>
   
Jim

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