On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Harry Wilkinson wrote:

The usual ZPT-ish way to do this is to have one main macro (often called 'master') which has the header, the footer, and a METAL slot in between them. In any pages that you want to use the standard header and footer with, you just do metal:use-macro="here/main_template/macros/master" or similar to that, and then put your page content into a metal:fill-slot block.

So, rather than put the header and footer inside each page, you put your page content inside a standard wrapper.

I understand and have used this successfully. The problem is that I have a lot of DTML pages which I'd try to avoid rewriting to page templates. But I'd also try to avoid to duplicate code in the page template and the standard_html_footer/header.