[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] PROPOSAL: html_quote implicit in entity-reference var tagsyntaxsyntax

[Jim Fulton]

Kevin Dangoor wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mauricio <mauricio@hiper.com.br>
> To: ZOPE <zope@zope.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 8:11 PM
> Subject: [Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] PROPOSAL: html_quote implicit in
> entity-reference var tagsyntaxsyntax
> 
> >Or, we can create a new sintax like:
> >&dtml-name#html_quote;
> >equivalent to:
> ><!--#var name html_quote-->
> 
> I think this syntax somewhat eliminates the "shorthand" style of &dtml-name;
> Typing &dtml-name; is nicer than <dtml-var name html_quote>
> Typing &dtml-name#html_quote; is not much different than <dtml-var name
> html_quote>, IMHO

I should have made clearer in my original post that the purpose of the
entity reference syntax is to be able to embed var tags in HTML tag 
attributes without breaking the HTML syntax, as in:

  <input name=spam value="&dtml-spam;">

The goal was not to reduce keystrokes.  I don't think that
"&dtml-name#html_quote;" is a syntactically valid entity reference.

Jim

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