I've just released my first development version of DTMLTemplates. You can find the distribution at: http://www.zope.org/Members/halazar/Products/DTMLTemplate DTML Templates are documents that allow blocks of text to be named and made available to other documents. The basic building block of templates is the DTML "block" tag, which can also be used with other DTML document types. Templates export their blocks. Another new tag, the "suppress" tag, allows block definition without rendering. Here are several nice features of blocks and templates that I believe will greatly benefit the Zope community (several of these items have come up recently in Zope email discussions): * defines libraries of methods in one file, * allows structured text formatting in a DTML document, * allows pieces of multiple documents to be combined, * allows complex web designs created with HTML editors to be used as templates, * provides template elements that encourage proper nesting of markup tags. In short, I think that Templates offer great promise for the Zope and Zope developers. This release is a very early one, though. A construct as fundamental as this one may need both syntactic and structural tweaks to function in the most useful way, and only with discussion can we figure that way out. Please don't count on this product being stable for at least a couple of releases. I appreciate your interest and feedback. Michael Halle mhalle@media.mit.edu