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

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    Congratulations, you've successfully taken a mock-up and turned it
    into a dynamic Page Template.  This example illustrates how Page
    Templates work well as the "presentation layer" to your
    applications.  The Page Templates present the application logic
    (the Python-based scripts) and the application logic works with the data
    in your site (the files).

      % Anonymous User - Dec. 2, 2003 8:05 pm:
       once i figgered out how to set the publish folder, & that the object needs to exist in the zope database
       before you publish to it, i found this part of the tutorial quite useful. i am interested in learning how to
       use zope to build w/ markup and python, so i dont agree w/ the complaint that this shld be all about tal. the
       balance is pretty good

      % Anonymous User - Dec. 2, 2003 8:24 pm:
       except that when i open index_html in mozilla composer, i get the expanded html, & if i change the file &
       save it back, the expanded html overwrites the tal tags. i thought the tal was supposed to survive the round
       trip. wassup?
       jp

      % Anonymous User - Apr. 22, 2004 6:10 pm:
       IIRC, Mozilla Composer has a built-in "washer": The TAL attributes are naturally outside the specs that it
       tries to make the document conform to. Try looking for a way to turn the "washing" off.
       Ideally, the template document should declare a DOCTYPE that includes the tal:xxx attributes as valid for all
       elements, cf. how the XHTML 1.0 or HTML 4.01 DTDs "include" the standard attributes like dir and id.
       As an aside, Microsoft Frontpage 2000 leaves it in. Of course FP has its own plethora of "extra" attributes
       it sometimes uses... :)

      % Anonymous User - May 8, 2004 6:24 pm:
       You have to edit the file that you get by the "Browse HTML source" link (=.../index_html/source.html), not
       the already parsed file. This lets you edit the file and leaves the tal tags intact.