[Zope] index_html, method or doc?

[Joachim Werner]

> You have to use DTML methods for the index_html (usually you will want
> to include some other methods like standard_html-header and
> standard_html_footer in your index_html). Did you have a look into the
> Zope Book ?

That's not quite correct. Both DTML Methods and DTML Documents work fine,
but different:

As a DTMLMethod, index_html will try to "acquire" all the parts it needs
locally, e.g.

you have a folder structure like this:

ROOT
|--- index_html
|--- standard_html_header (with white background)
|--- standard_html_footer
|--- GREEN
|      --- standard_html_header (with green background)
--- RED
      --- standard_html_header (with red background)

RED/index_html will have a red background and GREEN/index_html will have a
green one. Same with title attributes etc.

If you use a DTML Document, it will only look for the "local" stuff, i.e. it
will take its own title if you say "<dtml-var title>", and it will take the
standard_html_header from the ROOT, which is white in the example.

The other difference is that DTML Methods does not have properties at all.
It can just acquire them. In most cases, people would use DTML Methods for
almost everything. Only if you import HTML documents from the outside, it
might be better to use DTML Documents.


Cheers

Joachim