[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.5 Edition)/Advanced Zope Scripting

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      You can use External Methods to do darn near anything. One interesting
      thing that you can do is to communicate using XML. You can generate and
      process XML with External Methods.

        % Anonymous User - Sep. 27, 2002 5:31 pm:
         /darn near/close to/ 
         Merriam-Webster says: adjective, == damned, used in swearing 

         well, while i usually ridicule at PC (a strange US peculiarity, i am german)
         nonetheless i do think that while sloppy slang may be ok in oral street talk,
         its not ok in written technical material. also for non native speakers,
         "darn" may be unknown. and last, its superfluous.