[Zope] generalized viewer in zpt

[David Bear]

I would like to create a generalized document/file viewer in zpt but
I'm getting stuck in understanding some things.

lets say I have a folder heirarchy like this:

\
\myTemplates
\publicDocument
\publicDocument\stuff
\publicDocument\stff2

where stuff[n] could be anything from a structure text doc, to dtml
method, to a file, to .. any zope object.

I would like to have some macro's in myTemplates that could
automagically display whatever object it is.

I'm thinking of something like

...
   <div metal:define-macro="stuffviewer">
   <p metal:define-slot="main">
       <tal:content="here/stuff"/>
   </p>
   </div>
but my brain gets twisted.  do I send 'stuff' to the zpt as a
parameter, ie \publicDocument\myTemplate\macros\stuffviewer\stuff?

the other side then is how can tal/metal 'know' that it should be
doing something like
  <p tal:content="structure here/stuff"/>
 
rather than
  <p tal:content="here/stuff"/>

will I need to loop and test object type?


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