[Zope] <dtml-comment> doesn't? Please fix... ;-)

[Andrew Kenneth Milton]

+-------[ Chris Withers ]----------------------
| Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
| > But then you'd have to parse the contents to find out if the comments are
| > properly nested...
| 
| Well, the parsing should be pretty simple:
| 1. find <dtml-comment>
| 2. search for </dtml-comment>

Or <dtml-comment>

| 3. if found:
| 	ignore that block of text
|    else if end of text reached:
| 	bitch like hell ;-)
| 
| What's wrong with that?

It's wrong :-)

<dtml-comment>
crap
more crap
<dtml-comment>
Lots of crap
</dtml-comment>
</dtml-comment>

In order to parse that fragment, you need to parse the blocks in case you
find another opening block, so that you can recursively process comments.

| > I've looked at this briefly today, and the code inside DT_String.py is
| > recursively ugly... d;)
| 
| You do surprise me ;-)
| 
| > It doesn't look difficult to provide what you want, but, I'm not motivated
| > enough to fix it either at this stage. d8)
| 
| Aww... go on, you know you want to really ;-)

Now you know the problem domain, it shouldn't be hard for you to create
a cut-down equivalent of the DT_String parser that only parses comment blocks.

Take you less time than writing these emails I'm sure d;)

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