[Zope] ANNOUNCE: EXPERIMENTAL DTML Syntax change

[Doug Wyatt]

At 9:06 -0400 6/15/99, Jim Fulton wrote:
>   <dtml-var standard_html_header>
>   <ul>
>     <dtml-in objectValues>
>       <li> <a href="&dtml-URL1;/&dtml-id;/manage_workspace">
>            <dtml-var title></a>
>     </dtml-in>                               <-- i fixed this -- dsw
>   </ul>
>   <dtml-var standard_html_footer>

My first impression: this is a big improvement - much easier to read and type.

My only concern is that it's inconsistent when you want to put DTML 
inside HTML tags, like with the href in the example above.  I suppose 
that's unavoidable.  Do you have to escape all ampersands now, or is 
'&dtml' itself the key?

Can you use "&dtml-some_variable_name" outside of quotes?

Doug

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