[Zope] Is it just me?

[Paul Everitt]

Actually, it's pretty simple.  The move from <!--#var to <dtml-var was
largely inspired by a desire to play nicer with HTML editors that let
you extend their tags.  Think of it as namespaces in XML.

There are lots of products that have their own tags, neatly prefaced
with something to indicate that they belong to the product.

Imagine, though, if all the products and projects on the web that did
this reduced their prefixes to a single letter.  The chance of
collisions would go up significantly.

In the end you're right -- it should be easy enough for you to hack the
DTML machinery to look for any prefix you choose.

--Paul

Daniel.Weber@SEMATECH.Org wrote:
> 
> <RANT>
> Well, after fixing about the hundredth instance in my code of dmtl instead of
> dtml, I have to ask the question - why the heck couldn't it be <z-var ...>
> instead of <dtml-var>?  it's gotten to the point where I'm going to hack the
> code to spell-check for dmtl....
> </RANT>
> 
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