Jake (aka BZ) wrote:
There are a bunch of good articles on DTML and ZPT over at http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Zope
That should keep you reading. You can either pick DTML or go with the newer ZPT (I am still in DTML land).
Thanks for the links--the devshed site does a great job of going over the basics. DTML seems relatively straightforward to me--ZPT/TAL/TALES/METAL seems kind of "wordy" to me, but since it's "newer" I'm almost inclined to skip over DTML for now. Is there anything DTML can do that ZPT can't do? I drafted a quick site in DTML using DTML Documents for the header and footer and included them via dtml-var and it worked just great. I tried doing the same with ZPT and using tal:replace with a header and footer Page Template, and it converted the HTML to character entities because I got back the plain HTML. I'm sure it might be something obvious that I've not read into yet... Jay