On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:13:19PM +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
Jim Anderson wrote:
Maybe just a bit of a masochist - LOL. I've started reading more about ZPT, and it looks like it will help. I haven't gotten to far yet, but I haven't dumped DTML from my vocabulary yet because I have a concern about tieing ZPT with python modules.
What do you mean?
I haven't seen how to do that yet. Give me a bit more time on reading then maybe I'll be ok with ZPT. The Zope Book encourages using ZPT, but also says that there are times to use DTML.
There are never times to use DTML ;-)
Sure there are. ZPT is XML-centric and not everything wants to be XML (or a python script). Examples are dynamic stylesheets a la Plone, and Z SQL methods. Other than those 2 examples, I use ZPT for all templates.
I need to be able to program a lot of logic and tie it in with the presentation. I'm getting to the point with DTML where I think I can do that with most of my work in python, and a sprinkling of DTML. I'm not quite there yet, however :(
Yeah, do most of the work in Script (Python)'s, and then present that work using ZPT. ZPT is good in that it gives you good hints as to when stuff should be in a python script...
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