[Zope] ANNOUNCE: EXPERIMENTAL DTML Syntax change

[Jim Fulton]

Doug Wyatt wrote:
> 
> At 9:06 -0400 6/15/99, Jim Fulton wrote:
> >   <dtml-var standard_html_header>
> >   <ul>
> >     <dtml-in objectValues>
> >       <li> <a href="&dtml-URL1;/&dtml-id;/manage_workspace">
> >            <dtml-var title></a>
> >     </dtml-in>                               <-- i fixed this -- dsw

:)

> >   </ul>
> >   <dtml-var standard_html_footer>
> 
> My first impression: this is a big improvement - much easier to read and type.
> 
> My only concern is that it's inconsistent when you want to put DTML
> inside HTML tags, like with the href in the example above.  I suppose
> that's unavoidable.  Do you have to escape all ampersands now, or is
> '&dtml' itself the key?
> 
> Can you use "&dtml-some_variable_name" outside of quotes?

Actually, "&dtml-" (letters|digits|underscore|dash|dot) + ";"

Jim

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