[Zope-CMF] Re: Proposal for hooking rendering

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:24:56PM +0100, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Paul Winkler wrote at 2005-11-30 10:33 -0500:
> > ...
> >When you customize a FSPageTemplate, you get a plain ZopePageTemplate.
> >So you'll need to find a way to post-process the output of those
> >without requiring a change to core Zope, or this becomes a Zope
> >proposal.  Unfortunately I haven't a clue how you could avoid that.
> 
> Instead, you change the "makeZODBClone" (or similar method)
> of "FSPageTemplate" and create a (new) "CMFPageTemplate".
> (rather than a plain "ZopePageTemplate").
> 
> This would be a good thing (not only in the light of Paul's
> proposal) as a plain "ZopePageTemplate" behaves too differently
> from a "FSPageTemplate" (i.e. it is not "Caching Policy Manager" aware).

Good idea. We'd probably also want a migration script to convert existing
ZopePageTemplates under portal_skins into your new CMFPageTemplate.

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Paul Winkler
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