[Zope] Re: Zope Myths?

Josef Meile jmeile@hotmail.com
Wed, 11 Sep 2002 17:55:31 +0200


Hi,

> We've been giving some thought to the best way of
> informing people about Zope. An outline of the ground
> we plan to cover is at:
>
> http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/projects/cms/zope/ucisa-sg/mythz.htm

It's interesting, but there is something that worries me:

> Documental Template Markup Language (DTML) is now deprecated in favour of
Zope Presentation Templates (ZPT).
> DTML, as well as being "proprietary", often lead to code that was hard to
maintain. ZPT allows for a much better
> separation of presentation and logic (the logic being done in Python or
Perl). Moreover, ZPT is XHTML compliant
> and can be edited with a wide range of tools.

Is it true? Does it mean that future versions of Zope won't support DTML?

Thanks,
Josef