[Zope] Java re-invents DTML :-)

[Max M]

Dario Lopez-K=E4sten wrote:

>When looking into customising Plone and CPS for instance, I find that ma=
ny
>ZPT pages look to be as hard and tedious to follow as some of the my own=
 bad
>DTML pages are.
>

ZPT is far superior to dtml! I have recently made the switch, after 3=20
years of dtml, and I must say that I was very pleasently surprised.=20
Initially I believed that zpt would be more verbose. But that is not=20
really the case. It is also much easier to read the code, as all the=20
tags add up.

It is especially metal that makes the biggest difference. Metal is just=20
so brilliant. It makes it possible to create layouts where you only need =

to define your visual elements once, and you can re-use them all over=20
your site. Which means that you can create a skin for a complete site=20
using only 2 zpt's and a css. That is *so* brilliant.

regards Max M