[Zope] DTML and XML

[Harry Wilkinson]

On Tuesday 05 March 2002 3:42 pm, Stephen Johnston wrote:
> Hi
>
> New to this stuff, can someone tell me the difference between XML and DTML
> (is that the same as DHTML)
>
> TIA
>
> S.


These are all very different and not really comparable in a simple (ie brief) 
way.  I suggest you go to http://www.w3.org to read up on what XML and DHTML 
are, and go to http://www.zope.org to find out about DTML.

There is also a good (better in my opinion) alternative to DTML for Zope now, 
called ZPT.  This is XML-based and generally more structured and clean.  If 
you're just starting out with Zope I strongly recommend you use as it will 
(hopefully) prevent you from falling into any of the many possible problems 
you can get into design-wise with DTML.  It's much harder to write bad code 
(IMO) with ZPT.

Harry