[ZPT] ZPT style question

[Clemens Robbenhaar]

Hi Jean,

 > Hi all
 > 
 > In a product by a ZPT guru of note, I see code like this:
 > 
 > """
 > <init tal:omit-tag=""
 >    tal:define="global disable_delete python:1;
 >      global disable_move_up python:1;
 >      global disable_move_down python:1" />
 > ...
 > <content tal:replace="structure 
 > python:here.service_editor.renderElementsCache(request.node)" />
 > """
 > 
 > Points to ponder:
 > 1) using a non-standard tag (init) and then discarding it
 >     (omit-tag) or replacing it (in the case of content).
 > 2) always keeping the tal: namespace with the attributes,
 >     instead of moving it to the elements.
 > 
 > Both snippets occur in the same template. Is there anything which
 > makes that preferable above always writing:
 > 
 > """
 > <tal:init define="global disable_delete python:1;
 >                    global disable_move_up python:1;
 >                    global disable_move_down python:1" />
 > ...
 > <tal:content replace="structure 
 > python:here.service_editor.renderElementsCache(request.node)" />
 > """
 [...]

 I can think of only one reason: the first version is covered by the
Zope Book and thus can be expected to be commonly known. The <tal:..>
notation is not so well documented and may look confusing to newbies.

 Hm, the code looks very much like taken from the "Silva" product :-)
There has been a conclusion by the developers of this product to
switch to the latter version  (i.e. <tal:foo> instead of <foo
tal:omit-tag="">) recently, but so far nobody did find the time to fix
all the code yet.

 I do not think You have to worry about which form is "better", its a
matter of style IMHO.

Cheers,
Clemens