[ZPT] Re: [Zope] returning an HTML comment from ZPT
Chris Withers
chrisw@nipltd.com
Thu, 23 May 2002 15:01:18 +0100
Hi Fred :-)
"Fred L. Drake, Jr." wrote:
>
> What makes you think that? Why would something *inside* a comment get
> expanded? I'd be very surprised myself.
Well, comments are sent to browsers, so are their contents. For me, that makes them fair
game for interpolation.
Who knows? Maybe you want some debugging:
<!-- dammit, we got xxx again -->
...which you don't want to be visible for users?
> Is it simply that DTML does it differently, or do you think there's a
> functional problem with not expanding commented-out TAL/METAL
> constructs? Should it not be possible to include comments about TAL
> constructs (with examples) in page templates?
Well, there's two things that I guess are getting mixed here?
HTML comments - which I think should be expanded
TAL/METAL comments - which shouldn't be expanded.
I usually do the latter as:
<tal:comment condition="">
This code stinks, I should fix it some time ;-)
</tal:comment>
cheers,
Chris