[Zope] - dtml tagspace

[Jim Fulton]

"Andrew M. Kuchling" wrote:
> 
> Jeff Bauer writes:
> >Now that Andrew Kuchling has open pandora's box by
> >describing in explicit detail how to "roll your own"
> >dtml tags, it might be a good time to discuss how
> >to protect "tagspace".  Otherwise, Digital Creations
> >may produce future dtml tags that will stomp user-defined
> >tag names, if this becomes a popular pastime.  A simple
> >convention for tag names prefixed by <whatever> could
> >be reserved for user designation.
> 
>         It would be worth figuring out if adding tags is the way to
> go, though;

There are many cases where they are a good way to go.
The acid test is whether adding a new tag would significantly
reduce the amount of DTML code needed for a common task.

> perhaps it's better to simply create objects and call
> methods on them. 

I certainly wouldn't invent a tag just to do that.

> But I'm paralyzed by the fact that I don't really
> know how to do that: if document A is being processed, and object B is
> in the same folder, how do I call one of B's methods through DTML?

<!--#var "B.some_method()"-->

Jim

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