[Zope] ANNOUNCE: EXPERIMENTAL DTML Syntax change

[Michael Bernstein]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> Zope 2.0.0 alpha 2 (and public CVS) includes an experimental change to the
> DTML parser to allow HTML tags syntax and character entity reference as
> an alternative to the server-side-include (SSI) syntax.  Basically, source
> like:
> 
>   <!--#var standard_html_header-->
>   <ul>
>     <!--#in objectValues-->
>       <li> <a href="<!--#var URL1-->/<!--#var id-->/manage_workspace">
>            <!--#var title--></a>
>     <!--#/in-->
>   </ul>
>   <!--#var standard_html_footer-->
> 
> to be written as:
> 
>   <dtml-var standard_html_header>
>   <ul>
>     <dtml-in objectValues>
>       <li> <a href="&dtml-URL1;/&dtml-id;/manage_workspace">
>            <dtml-var title></a>
>     <dtml-/in>
>   </ul>
>   <dtml-var standard_html_footer>

MUCH better! This is pretty much the way Allaire does it with CFML tags,
so teaching Homesite and dreamweaver to support/ignore these tags will
probably be a lot easier.

And thank you for removing the 'line noise'. You might (MIGHT) want to
consider requiring an enclosing '<dtml-eval>' tag around the environment
variables, though:

   <li> <dtml-eval><a
href="&dtml-URL1;/&dtml-id;/manage_workspace"></dtml-eval>

Leaving them 'naked' doesn't feel right.


01 (just my two bits)

Michael Bernstein.