On Tue, Jul 13, 2004, robert rottermann wrote:
why do you use dtml?
Because that's all that's covered in ``The Book of Zope''?
Tough it is not really depreciated yet, it is for sure on a declining branch. Better invest in learning Page templates. They are much clearer than dtml, and have fever "magic" that "you have to know since it is how it works"
I'm still very much on the early stages of learning Zope and Plone, having only started about a month ago, having built some simple Plone sites, and perused ``The Zope Book'', ``The Plone Book'', ``The Book of Zope'', ``Zope Web Application Development and Content Management'', and a couple of python books (I'm JAPH beginning to learn python). I have pretty much reached the conclusion that page templates are the only way to go if one wants to develop methods that play nicely in a Plone framework as one can use the standard macros to stay within the Plone layout rather than just doing full web pages. ... Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ A paranoid is a man who knows a little of what's going on. -- William S. Burroughs