On Tuesday 08 October 2002 12:50 pm, Shad Young wrote:
I am a bit jargon challenged when it come to Zope and Python. Could you please clarify ZPT?
Zope Page Templates, also known as Page Templates. It's a more recent alternative to DTML; quite different, with some advantages (and arguably disadvantages). You'll also see reference to TAL, TALES, and METAL which are what the Page Templates language is constructed from. (roughly: TAL= Template Attribute Language, kinda generic; TALES = TAL Expression SYntax, specific to ZPT I think; and METAL = ... er... I forget. It's the macro language you can use in ZPT.)
What would be the series and order of how-tos (that work) I should read to get myself up to speed without having to spend a year trying to plod through all this on my own? Because, so far, the reading I have done on my own, and the examples contained there-in, do not work. Some even have basic coding errors like missing (') in the example snippets. *boggle*
The online version of the Zope Book should be pretty up-to-date. It includes lots of examples, and the material is presented in a pretty sensible progression. http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/current/index_html Any errors in the text can and should be reported immediately via the "talkback" feature of the online version; these comments periodically get folded in to the main text. I personally can't vouch for the correctness of every code example, but they're a lot more likely to be updated than the average HOWTO on zope.org - many of which are good, but many of which have not aged well. -- Paul Winkler "Welcome to Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"