[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.6 Edition)/Basic DTML

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Wed Jan 21 03:24:54 EST 2004


A comment to the paragraph below was recently added via http://zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/DTML.stx#2-1

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    DTML is similar in function to "HTML-embedded" scripting languages
    such as JSP, PHP, or mod_perl.  It differs from these facilities
    inasmuch as it will not allow you to create "inline" Python
    *statements* (if... then.. else..)  in the way that JSP, mod_perl
    or PHP will allow you to embed a block of their respective
    language's code into an HTML page. DTML does allow you to embed
    Python *expressions* (a == 1) into HTML-like tags.  It provides
    flow control and conditional logic by way of "special" HTML tags.
    It is more similar to Perl's 'HTML::Template' package than it is
    to mod_perl in this way.  It can also be compared to the web
    server facility of Server Side Includes (SSI), but with far more
    features and flexibility.

      % Anonymous User - Jan. 21, 2004 3:24 am:
       test cbo



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