[Zope-CMF] DTML in News/Documents - WHY ??

[Stephen Hindle]

Ahh...Thanks :-)

  I'll go RTFM :-)  One last dumb question - Does all this 'skinning' stuff
supercede ZStyleSheets ?  I want to start to learn xml/xsl-ish layout and
I'm not sure it ZStyleSheet's are the way CMF is gonna handle it ??

Mechanix

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seb Bacon [mailto:seb@jamkit.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:59 AM
> To: Stephen Hindle
> Cc: zope-cmf@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] DTML in News/Documents - WHY ??
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You're going about it the wrong way.  You need to suppy a new skin,
> which consists of DTML Methods.  See the tutorials on the dogbowl for
> instructions.
> 
> Seb
> 
> On 28 Mar 2001 13:01:36 -0800, Stephen Hindle wrote:
> > 
> > The lack of DTML in Documents is causing me problems
> > with index_html pages.  The 'default' index doesn't
> > list any of the contents of a folder - you have to
> > keep hitting 'view contents'.  So I figured I'd just 
> > 'supply' a index_html document.  However, this turned
> > out to be more difficult then anticipated.  It has to 
> > be done from within the CMF management console, as the 
> > stock management console 'DTML_Document' type causes 
> > CMF to choke.  The CMF based index_html page can't 
> > display the news box though, nor any other cool CMF/Zope 
> > stuff because they're all DTML based.
> > 
> > In short, this seems like a step backwards....
> > Is it really a good thing not to allow DTML ?
> > Could a new content type "DTML Document" be added
> > to CMF ?
> > Is there some other method for customizing the look of a 
> > site ?
> > 
> > Mechanix
> > 
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