Re: [Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope Book call for assistance

2002-12-09 Thread Allen Schmidt
TED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 9:50 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope Book call for assistance > > erm... would "advanced DTML" not be the short sentence: > > "avoid DTML where you can"? ;) > > That'd be ok, ex

Re: [Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope Book call for assistance

2002-12-09 Thread Matthew T. Kromer
Jeffrey P Shell wrote: But SQL Method DTML is very very very very nice. It has a lot of type enforcement/safety measures (ie - autoquoting SQL Strings, ensuring that a 'sqlvar type=float' operation is inserting a float); a lot of *very* nice features for generating 'where' clauses (the sqltes

Re: [Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope Book call for assistance

2002-12-09 Thread Jeffrey P Shell
On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 04:11 AM, Tino Wildenhain wrote: Hi Chris, --On Freitag, 6. Dezember 2002 21:27 -0500 Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 19:13, Tino Wildenhain wrote: These are exactly the things you shouldn't neither do in DTML nor in ZPT :-)

Re: [Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope Book call for assistance

2002-12-07 Thread Chris McDonough
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 06:11, Tino Wildenhain wrote: > Hi Chris, > > --On Freitag, 6. Dezember 2002 21:27 -0500 Chris McDonough > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 19:13, Tino Wildenhain wrote: > >> These are exactly the things you shouldn't neither do in DTML > >> nor in ZPT

Re: [Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope Book call for assistance

2002-12-07 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Hi Chris, --On Freitag, 6. Dezember 2002 21:27 -0500 Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 19:13, Tino Wildenhain wrote: These are exactly the things you shouldn't neither do in DTML nor in ZPT :-) What do you suggest people use for a templating language for email,

Re: [Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope Book call for assistance

2002-12-06 Thread Chris McDonough
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 19:13, Tino Wildenhain wrote: > These are exactly the things you shouldn't neither do in DTML > nor in ZPT :-) What do you suggest people use for a templating language for email, JavaScript, SQL, etc? I think it's too much to expect them to use Python to do this (esp. wrt SQ

Re: [Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope Book call for assistance

2002-12-06 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Hi Chris, --On Freitag, 6. Dezember 2002 09:50 -0500 Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: erm... would "advanced DTML" not be the short sentence: "avoid DTML where you can"? ;) That'd be ok, except that DTML can of course do things that ZPT can't, yada yada yada. These are exactly the

Re: [Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope Book call for assistance

2002-12-06 Thread Chris McDonough
> erm... would "advanced DTML" not be the short sentence: > "avoid DTML where you can"? ;) That'd be ok, except that DTML can of course do things that ZPT can't, yada yada yada. > Btw. did you think of putting the whole DTML stuff at the end for > reference only to help migrating old products and

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope Book call for assistance

2002-12-06 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Hi, --On Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2002 23:20 -0500 Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Advanced DTML: < http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/AdvDTML.stx erm... would "advanced DTML" not be the short sentence: "avoid DTML where you can"? ;) Btw. did you thi

[Zope-dev] Zope Book call for assistance

2002-12-05 Thread Chris McDonough
Hi, Time has rolled around for me to ask for assistance with editing the most recent edition of the Zope Book. A "2.6 edition" of the Zope Book exists at http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/index_html. It has many new chapters and a most existing chapters have been rewrit