[Zope] Illegal page template footer

Hi all, I want to have a set of header/footer page templates with a table element opening in the header and closing in the footer, for global formatting reasons. Of course, Zope complains that there is no opening <td> tag to match the closing </td> tag and using macros doesn't help. Will I have to use a python script to print the text, or is there a way to fool Zope into thinking the code is legal? And please don't mention dtml... Thanks, Chris