[Zope] Using Structured Text and HTML-quote together for RSS 2.0

[Jonathan Cyr]

Thanks... but go easy.

I have to choose which features of Zope to learn and use, based on a 
much larger criteria than I can present here. 

I do not wish to mix ZPT and DTML in my project... I had chosen DTML, 
before ZPT was mature... It may be better, but I don't care for now... 
when I'm able to re-assess which pieces of Zope to use in a future 
project, I may well choose it.

As a professional programmer, you must see the advantage in adhering to 
a project's standards and specs, as to managing the code in the 
project.  That is why I needed to use DTML for my RSS.

I have chosen my mix for this project, and benefit much more from my 
standards docs much more than any single feature like ZPT can provide.

As far as I know, DTML is being supported into the future, and my hand 
will not be forced.

I appreciate all the hard work in developing ZPT for the community, but 
it's just not for me, yet... probably be used in my first Zope 3 project 
instead.

BTW, the solution presented by Peter hit the nail on the head... I have 
a very nice RSS setup now for my Zope app.

Thanks,

-Jon Cyr

Chris Withers wrote:

> Jonathan Cyr wrote:
>
>> I am constructing an RSS 2.0 feed for a zope app.  I am creating the 
>> rss.xml file in a DTML method.  
>
>
> Use ZPT, it's much better suited to this...
>
>> to include in the feed is a structured-text paragraph.  To use any 
>> XHTML in a feed you must "html_quote" all of the extended characters 
>> for it to work.
>
>
> What do you mean by "extended characters" here?
>
>> So I wish to do something like <dtml-var summary 
>> fmt="structured-text" html_quote>
>>
>> This obviously doesn't work, (would have been cool if it did tho).  
>> How do I access the structured text and html quote translation 
>> mechanisms in an expr tag.
>>
>> Something like <dtml-var expr="summary.structured_text().html_quote()">
>
>
>
> ZPT does html quoting by default, so provided 
> summary.structured_text() does what yo uexpect it to, you could just do:
>
> <tal:x replace="summary/structured_text"/>
>
> That said, I'd pretty sure RSS feeds CAN include html, and it doesn't 
> need to be quoted...
>
>> ps- I don't use ZPT, DTML was chose a while back, and would rather keep 
>
>
> Well, un-choose it, especially for something new and isolated like an 
> RSS feed...
>
>> the RSS in a DTML Method rather than a python script.  The layers are 
>> getting pretty hairy, don't want to add indention to it
>
>
> Huh?!
>
> Chris
>

-- 
Jonathan Cyr
cyrj at cyr.info

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