[Grok-dev] Grok and chameleon

[Souheil CHELFOUH]

Unless i'm mistaken, all TAL expressions are python ones
so, you have to replace the current ones by python ones :

tal:content="request/principal/id"  =>  tal:content="request.principal.id"
tal:define="something context/myMethod" => tal:define="something
context.myMethod()"

2010/2/5 Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com>:
> Souheil CHELFOUH wrote:
>> When i first started Dolmen, a year ago, I used Chameleon as a base
>> template engine.
>> Things are : the syntax is not 100% compatible with the current one.
>> It means adapting templates that already exist.
>> The speed gain is not that important, on well structured pages. So I
>> dropped it. I thought people might be confused to have to learn other
>> languages.
>> But, if it's shipped as default, then, it might be interesting
>> That were my .02
>
> We need to do impact analysis to see what the cost would be of shipping
> this by default.
>
> Is there a page somewhere which spells out how templates can break due
> to syntax changes?
>
> How easy is to, say, debug chameleon templates compared to
> zope.pagetemplate ones?
>
> What would the possible interactions be with the use of
> zope.pagetemplate within ZTK code?
>
> Without knowing all that, I'm in favor of trying to go there with Grok
> in the future.
>
> Regards,
>
> Martijn
>
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