[Zope] Syntax: Learning from JSP's problems

[Evan Simpson]

If you ignore everything after/including Problem #4, this paper transforms
quite well if you just replace 'JSP' with 'DTML', 'Java' with 'Python', and
'WebMacro' with 'DTML-entity syntax' :-)

&dtml-foo; (along with <dtml-let>) addresses most of the issues raised by
the paper.  The remainder already aren't *too* bad in DTML.  Still, there
are many times when I'd like to be able to do XSLT-style manipulation of
pages rather than embedding stuff.

----- Original Message -----
From: Robb Shecter <shecter@darmstadt.gmd.de>
> Let me qualify that: I don't mean to slam on the DHTML syntax.  I just
> wanted to point out a current discussion going on in the Java world.  What
> I meant by difficult is:  I'm not too adept at DTML yet, and one thing
> that throws me is that there are apparently different "levels" of coding;
> some statement/commands have their own tags.  Some are attributes of a
> tag.  Some are written inside a string as the value of an attribute.  And,
> I find the XML tag endings and dtml markers distracting.

Cheers,

Evan @ digicool