[Zope] Syntax: Learning from JSP's problems

[Johan Carlsson]

> If you ignore everything after/including Problem #4, this paper transforms
> quite well if you just replace 'JSP' with 'DTML', 'Java' with 
> 'Python', and
> 'WebMacro' with 'DTML-entity syntax' :-)
> 
> &dtml-foo; (along with <dtml-let>) addresses most of the issues raised by
> the paper.  The remainder already aren't *too* bad in DTML.  Still, there
> are many times when I'd like to be able to do XSLT-style manipulation of
> pages rather than embedding stuff.

That's an absolutely brilliant idee! 

One problem that I see with DTML is that is hard
to make complex methods in. DTML great for embedding 
content in a template, thou.
Python Methods on the other hand are brilliant 
for making methods/functions.

It would be nice to be able to include inline 
Python Methods inside a DTML Method/Document,
either with <dtml-tags> or &dtml-entities;
It would make methods more manageable collecting
all related code.


Example:
<dtml-pymethod>

def myfunc():
	return super_stylus

</dtml-pymethod>


<h1>&dtml-id;</h1>

<p style="&dtml-myfunc;">This is a super styled message!</p>

etc...


//Johan