[Zope] tag suggestions: format tag

[Alexander Staubo]

I think it's a good suggestion, but it'd be neat if the tag could accept
an inline expression. Something like:

<!--#format expr="Hello world" formatter="StructuredText"-->

would be equivalent to

<!--#format StructuredText-->Hello world<!--#/format-->

And

<!--#format name=MyDocument formatter="StructuredText"-->

would be equivalent to

<!--#format StructuredText--><!--#var MyDocument--><!--#/format-->

Comments? Regardless of the exact syntax, I think we're on the lead of
an important feature currently missing in Zope.

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Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jay, Dylan [mailto:djay@lucent.com]
>Sent: 23. juli 1999 05:28
>To: 'zope@zope.org'
>Subject: [Zope] tag suggestions: format tag
>
>
>Along the same lines as <!--#var Object fmt="DisplayMethod-->,
>I propose the ability to do that at definition time instead of 
>when you call
>the document.
>Lets say I want a section of Structured text in DTML document 
>I could do the
>following
>
><!--#format StructuredText-->
>*Item 1
>*Item 2
><!--#/format-->
>
>or if I want to plain text (and not have DTML processed) I could do the
>following
>
><!--#format PlainText-->
>
><!--#var "This line won't be rendered"-->
>
><!--#/format-->
>
>Good idea or not?
>
>My rationale is as follows. 
>1. I want to be able to add documents in various formats. The format is
>fixed at creation time. I don't want to have to tell zope how to render
>something everytime it is to be rendered. A structured text 
>document is a
>structured text document. An alternative way of doing this is to have
>another property of a document specifying how it is to rendered.
>2. How do I display DTML syntax in a DTML document?
>
>
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