Andy, I am actually just starting working with it. As long as I can have help futzing with the aq_parent stuff to get it to work, I'll be using it in my intranet app. My real desire is to find a way to construct these type of html objects from html. Like a poor man's HyperDOM. :) > Cool, do I see a Zope product coming up? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason Spisak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Andy McKay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 5:13 AM > Subject: Re: [Zope] Disadvantages of using DTML > > > > Andy: > > > > Actually, I have been playing with it. > > What it does is create HTML, XHTML, XML from python objects like so: > > > > p = TABLE(bgcolor="#00000", border="0", cellpadding="1", > > TR( > > TD('my stuff goes here'))) > > > > print p > > > > <TABLE bgcolor="#00000" border="0" cellpadding="1"> > > <TR> > > <TD>my stuff goes here</TD></TR></TABLE> > > > > So I just create bit and pieces that get called to form a UI. > > Aquisition works too. I have a property in a containing folder, that I > > called as the bgcolor of the table and it worked fine. > > > > All my best, > > > > > > > The docs I quickly looked at suggested it just parsed XHTML into HTML, > > > nothing more. It would be interesting useful if it did do so much > more... Im > > > assuming there would be a little bit of Zope integration to do... > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Jason Spisak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "Andy McKay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 4:22 AM > > > Subject: Re: [Zope] Disadvantages of using DTML > > > > > > > > > > Andy: > > > > > > > > Since it would be python, can you not call objects, run python, and > lots > > > of > > > > stuff? ;) > > > > > > > > > > > > > You lose out on all the wondeful help you get from this mailing list > :) > > > > > > > > > > But seriously this is a html generator... dtml is a great deal more > than > > > > > just a html formatter, it can call objects, run python and lots of > > > stuff. > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > From: "Jason Spisak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 2:43 AM > > > > > Subject: [Zope] Disadvantages of using DTML > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Zopists, > > > > > > > > > > > > Can anyone tell me off hand any big disadvantages to not using > DTML > > > > > > (Caching, etc...) and using a package like HyperText > > > > > > > > > > > > http://dustman.net/andy/python/HyperText > > > > > > > > > > > > to produce html display for your objects, and use python to > process > > > it? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Jason Spisak > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > > > > > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > > > > > > (Related lists - > > > > > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > > > > > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > All my best, > > > > > > > > Jason Spisak > > > > > > > > > > > > > Jason Spisak > > > Jason Spisak [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )