[Zpt] Things I miss..

[Shane Hathaway]

Martijn Pieters wrote:
> 
> While using ZPT, I miss the following when converting from CMF DTML skins:
> 
> - I can't batch. dtml-in had great tools for batching.
> 
> - No more dtml-tree.
> 
> Both of these issues are excellent territory for Components; you could
> write a Compononent that builds a tree for you, and you could make a
> Component that let's you batch a set.
> 
> I know, these fall outside of the scope of this project probably, but one
> can dream..

Actually, I see no dependency on what we're calling Zope components. 
One would create an "iterator" object with settings that correspond to
the arguments available for <dtml-in>; a similar procedure would exist
for <dtml-tree>.

I'm just surprised no one has written it yet. :-)

Shane