OK, I've solved it by using another way (details are below)

I'm trying to do a generic add page template where I don't have to write the class name. The name will be taken from an attribute of the template object. If you see the file OFS/Image.py, you will see something like this:

manage_addImageForm=DTMLFile('dtml/imageAdd',globals(),Kind='Image',kind='im age')

The attribute Kind is called from OFS/dtml/imageAdd.dtml like this:

<dtml-var "manage_form_title(this(), _,form_title='Add %s' % Kind,help_product='OFSP',help_topic='File_Add.stx')">

On my python class I put: manage_addBoringForm=PageTemplateFile('ZPT/addBoring',globals()) manage_addBoringForm.Kind='Boring' manage_addBoringForm._owner=None And here is how I called it from the ZPT: <h1 tal:define="pageTitle python:here.manage_form_title(here, request,form_title='Add %s' % template.Kind)" tal:replace="structure pageTitle">Add myClass </h1> ... <form action="someAction" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" tal:define="formAction python:'manage_add'+template.Kind" tal:attributes="action formAction"> ... My idea, as you see, is to write a macro that I can use from another Products, which I will migrate from ZClasses to python based products. Greetings, Josef