[ZPT] Mini proposal: repeat-define and repeat-condition

[Clemens Robbenhaar]

Troy Farrell writes:
 > MMmmmm.  My first thought is that this would break any code I ship that 
 > depends on a certain order of operations :(
 > 
 > Jamie Heilman wrote:
 > > Chris Withers wrote:
 > > 
 > >>Yeah, but it increases the size of ZPT's grammar, which is big enough 
 > >>already IMHO...
 > > 
 > > 
 > > I agree.  My thought though, is why not just let the user define the
 > > operation order of TAL statements.  I for one would love to move
 > > omit-tag before atributes as afaict computing attributes and then
 > > throwing away the entire tag is a waste of time.[1]  I understand that
 > > fully customizable op order may yeild an interpreter thats too slow
 > > though, I haven't looked at the TAL engine to see what dynamically
 > > changing the grammar would entail.  Thoughts?
 > > 

 ... unless the order of operations is defined in the page template or
so, and can be shipped together with the page template.

 (This does not imply I have any idea what "defined in the page template
or so" may mean ;-)

Clemens