[Zope] ZPT code sample

[J Cameron Cooper]

John Poltorak wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 06:07:36PM +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:
>>--On 21. Juni 2005 11:58:52 -0400 Fred Drake <fdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On 6/21/05, John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is there anything wrong with this ZPT code sample?
>>>>
>>>>http://www.zopemag.com/Issue003/Section_Articles/article_ZPTintro_code.h
>>>>tml
>>>>
>>>>I get this error message when trying to save it:-
>>>>
>>>>HTMLParser.HTMLParseError: malformed start tag, at line 8, column 37
>>>
>>>The cited line contains a typo; it uses "<" instead of ">" to end a tag.
>>
>>...which is obvious when you look in line 8 carefully.
> 
> It may well be obvious to anyone familiar with these things, but when you 
> are struggling to understand them, the last thing you need when you are 
> going through the most basic example is a typo in the example itself.

That problem that has nothing to do with any of the dynamic elements in 
the page. Such a typo would bork any tag-based language.

You're not learning HTML at the same time as ZPT, are you?

One should know HTML before dealing with any HTML templating language. I 
dare say it's a fool's errand to try  to learn ZPT unless you have an 
understanding of HTML and XML-sh languages in general.

> I keep wondering whether ZOPE is sponsored by wig makers...

Now that you know, you should notify the author/site and get it fixed.

		--jcc

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