Re: [PHP Template] DTML?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Ludovico Magnocavallo wrote:
> Just to complicate things further, I was wondering about the use of Zope's
> DTML (Document Template Markup Language -- the ref is at
> http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/DTML-HTML/DTML.html) as a
> template markup language for PHP.
> 
> Have you already considered it?
> 
> DTML would have a few pros:
> 
> 1 - compatibility with Zope templates
> 2 - adherence to a "standard" or to a subset of it
> 3 - templates commands and vars masked inside HTML comments
> 
> On the other hand, DTML looks a little too much, it is a sort of
> programming language in itself.
> 
> What do you think?

I don't think this is a good idea. We're not going to support full
functionality of DTML so you can't talk about compatibility with Zope.
I think we should just come up with a good standard of our own and let
others copy us. :)

-Andrei
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