[Zope] Syntax Extras

Thomas B. Passin tpassin@mitretek.org
Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:34:00 -0500


[Ben Ocean]

> A person named Coventry created a product to replace the <dtml tag with <:
> and I like that idea. However, I read in an archived post that it wasn't
> compatible with XML. Since the author hasn't returned my email, does
anyone
> know if it complies with XML now? His product can be seen here:
> http://www.zope.org/Members/Coventry/dtml_shortcut

Well, nothing like that can ever be well-formed XML, so his scheme would
have to be changed drastically to work with XML.  You could use processing
instructions, but that wouldn't be shorter than what we have now, I don't
think.

Cheers,

Tom P