[Grok-dev] Re: grok.PageTemplate and content types

[Martijn Faassen]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
[snip]
> I already did this in grok svn, so that changes to filesystem ZPTs 
> wouldn't require a Zope 3 restart.
> 
>> 2) Sniff the template content in grok.components.PageTemplate.__init__
>> and to set the content_type attr on the instance accordingly.
> 
> We could make this quite explicit using the file extension, for example. 
> 'foo.pt' would be text/html and 'foo.xpt' would be text/xml.

That's too big of a change; people would need to change their extensions 
and rename lots of files just because they want to make their templates 
XHMTL and add a bit to the header? I'd prefer to reserve different 
extensions for different page template engines altogether.

Is the sniffing too magic? Do people trip up because of this in Zope?

Regards,

Martijn