[Zope] comments

[Ben Glazer]

On Feb 21 2000 at 6:23 PM, Stephen Pitts wrote:
> I've been using HTML comment syntax
> lately, because it lets me do stuff like:
>
> <!-- <dtml-if foo> -->
> Hello
> <!-- </dtml-if> -->

Actually, this shouldn't work (the way you probably think it should).
Zope's DTML parser does not respect HTML comments, so the <dtml-if> is still
executed.  As a simple example, try this:

	<!-- <dtml-if "0"> -->
	    Not here!
	<!-- </dtml-if> -->

The real advantage of using <dtml-comment> is that it is part of DTML, so
the DTML parser recognizes it.  It's just a pain to type out every time you
want to comment something.


Regards,
Ben