[Zope] [FEATURE REQUEST] comment at the top of DTML Methods and Documents

[kosh@aesaeion.com]

I disagree with this idea a lot. Someone should not be able to view the
page source for the webpage and see the objects involved. I would rather
see this done using dtml-comments or information stuck in the property
sheets since that doesn't get sent to the web browser. Another reason not
to do this is if you have a page that gets composed of a hundred or more
objects having comments display for each on on the in the page source is a
fairly major amount of data sent to the web client for no purpose.

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On Thu, 24 May 2001, Jerome Alet wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think that putting an HTML comment at the top of DTML Methods and DTML
> Documents just like the one at the top of Python Scripts would be VERY
> useful. (at the bottom it would be useful too, I really don't care)
>
> This comment would just give the object meta-type and the preferred
> object id.
>
> This would allow for ZShell, and possibly other products or external software,
> to dump (ZShell's dump command) and restore objects (ZShell's wget command)
> transparently:
>
> Say I dump a DTML Method, it's saved as pure DTML source,
> because I just write the document_src() output to an external file.
>
> Now I reload it into the ZODB using the wget command, which in fact
> uses the mime type to determine what object type to create:
>
> There's a problem because it's impossible to differentiate a DTML
> Method from a DTML Document, because both are detected with the
> same mime type: text/html
>
> So I think such a comment would help when importing objects into
> the ZODB in unusual ways (not from the ZMI).
>
> I've not yet tried using webdav or ftp with Zope, but I suppose
> this would help there too.
>
> Any comments ?
>
> If you don't agree, please could you explain why ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jerome Alet
>
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