[Zope] Re: Zope Myths?

Andy McKay andy@agmweb.ca
Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:10:50 -0700


Lol DTML is not being deprecated. That answer to the myth is a myth.

It is in Zope 3. It is still being used in none compliant situations such as
SQL statements, css, javascript.
--
  Andy McKay
  Agmweb Consulting
  http://www.agmweb.ca


----- Original Message -----
From: "Josef Meile" <jmeile@hotmail.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 8:55 AM
Subject: [Zope] Re: Zope Myths?


> 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
>
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