[Zope-dev] Creating a fully stand-alone Zope Page Templates

[Kevin Smith]

I have been using that, and it is very nice, but it doesn't include 
METAL.  I'm hoping that the author of that package implements METAL, so 
I can use his package.  But if that doesn't work out, I need something 
to fall back on.

On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 11:25  PM, Barry Pederson wrote:

> Kevin Smith wrote:
>> I am trying to make a stand-alone Page Templates packages that 
>> doesn't have any Zope dependencies.  I was able to short circuit 
>> security and acquisition.  I re-implemented MultiMapping in plain 
>> Python and made the Base class just an empty class.
>> This is passing most of the regression tests, but there is one big 
>> issue left.  When a page template invokes something that is a 
>> function, it prints the equivalent of 'repr(function)' instead of 
>> 'function()'.  What magic that goes on within Zope am I missing in my 
>> wrapper?
>
> This doesn't answer the above question, and may not be suitable for 
> Kevin's needs, but I thought I'd mention there's a pretty nice 
> Zope-independent page template implementation at:
>
>     http://www.owlfish.com/software/simpleTAL/
>
> in case others have an interest in that sort of thing, and pretty 
> amazingly - it does it with just two module files, so it's a piece of 
> cake to use.
>
> 	Barry
>
>
Kevin Smith
Kevin.Smith@sas.com