[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.6 Edition)/Using Zope Page Templates

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    This data comes from the 'item' object by calling Zope API methods
    on what we know is a file object.  The methods 'item/getId',
    'item/getContentType', 'item/getSize',
    'item/bobobase_modification_time' are all standard API functions
    that are documented in Zope's online help system as well as in the
    various appendices to this book.

      % Anonymous User - May 5, 2004 9:09 am:
       This is probably one of the absolute *key* points for a beginner to understand, and it would benefit from
       more prominence. Understanding how TAL paths map to Zope API method names (ie, the mapping from item/id to
       item/getId to python:item.getId(), etc) is important, otherwise one can understand TAL, but be left in the
       dark as to what the available objects and paths are. --ben