[Zope] Continued problem tal:condition

[Dieter Maurer]

KevinL writes:
 > ...
 > I just added a page template, test_macro, and surrounded the default
 > content with "metal:block define-macro="test".  I added another ptl,
 > test, and made it consist entirely of:
 > 
 > <span tal:define="mName string:test">
 >   <metal:block use-macro="here/test_macro/macros/?mName">
 >   </metal:block>
 > </span>
 > 
 > When you view test, you get the test_macro macro appearing.
 > 
 > This works.  More than that, the conditional picking of macros like that
 > is important, I think - otherwise a lot of the dynamicness of a site
 > vanishes.  Perhaps we're talking at cross-purposes?  Or have I been
 > relying on a brokenness in macros/tal?  I can certainly see in the
 > documentation that it says macros are expanded before tal is executed,
 > but that seems to not be the case in practice?
What happens when you turn on "Expand macros when editing"?


Dieter