[Zope] zpt, metal and missing content objects (bit long)

[Jochen Haeberle]

At 19:02 Uhr +0100 12.09.2002, Tim Hicks wrote:
>  > given, that your html fragments _really_ are the content and not part
>>  of the presentation (for example because you're working on a Site on
>>  "best practice HTML") and no other object types than the basic ones
>>  you're right, there's no document that fits.
>
>I'm not working on a site on 'best practice HTML' ;-).  I simply need to
>present many pages to viewers with a consistent look-and-feel.


Well, you should not do it that way, I guess. Given you have many 
similar pages you can probably identify common properties. Take those 
out and put them in object properties.

If you just want to do a basically static site but with a common look 
an feel, you could use PageTemplates. The common parts would be put 
into the mass of your pages with metal:macros. But the start of our 
discussion was to seperate template from content so we're not really 
getting anywhere here...

>  The pages
>need only be available in html (as opposed to anything else like pdf, wml,
>or whatever), so I don't need to store XML or some other more data oriented
>format that must be converted to html.  I also have access to rather a nice
>ttw java applet for editing this html content in a wysiwyg way.  Storing
>html fragments (i.e. those that can't be abstracted out into the
>header/footer because they change from page to page) seems to be the way to
>go... but then I'm coming from the <dtml-var standard_html_header/footer>
>way of doing things.


>Given this, do you have any other ideas for a setup?
>
>>  If CMF was an option, that holds several content-types that would
>>  _exactly_ fit your need...
>
>I don't have access to CMF on the production server.

Could you please explain what kind of a beast this Zope is that you 
will be using???


Jochen