[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.6 Edition)/Relational Database Connectivity

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    Notice that this SQL code also contains DTML.  The DTML code in this
    template is used to insert the values of the arguments into the SQL
    code that gets executed on your database.  If the *emp_id* argument
    had the value *42*, the *first* argument had the value *Bob* your
    *last* argument had the value *Uncle* and the *salary* argument had
    the value *50000.00* then the query template would create the
    following SQL code::

      insert into employees (emp_id, first, last, salary) values
      (42,
       'Bob',
       'Uncle',
       50000.00
      )

      % Anonymous User - May 8, 2004 3:10 am:
       Do those of us trying to use ZPT instead of DTML have a tal:type option here, or do we need to use DTML in
       this case?

      % Anonymous User - May 13, 2004 6:20 am:
       No, ZPT is not suitable for constructing anything other than XML type documents. This is by nature of it
       being an XML based construction language, rather than a textual substitution language like DTML is.