[Zope-dev] Making index_html a PageTemplate

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
18 May 2003 19:49:29 -0400


On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 14:12, Craeg K Strong wrote:
>   DTML is not going away.  However, DTML is being de-emphasized in favor of
>   a newer technology called Zope Page Templates.  The two technologies 
> have a large
>   amount of overlap, but not 100%.  There are still a few things one can 
> do in DTML that
>   can not be done in ZPT.  One rule of thumb is as follows  always use 
> ZPT if possible, but
>   fall back to DTML if necessary.

There are many places in the 2.6 edition of the Zope Book which say
approximately the same thing.

- C