[Zope] Re: Isn't DTML more like what other frameworks do?

[Duncan Booth]

"Mark, Jonathan (Integic)"
<jonathan.mark at integic-hc.com> wrote: 

> So I don't really get the benefit of using ZPT. The fact that no one
> outside of Zope seems to have created a ZPT-like solution suggests to
> me that ZPT, as I said, solves a problem which doesn't exist. 

There are several applications outside Zope which use TAL and METAL as 
their templates: they didn't have to invent their own templating languages 
because Zope had already solved the problem for them.

N.B. These are separate implementations, not just borrowing of 
Zope code: modpython uses SimpleTAL, roundup I believe has its own 
implementation of TAL. There is also an implementation called OpenTAL 
although it looks kind of inactive.

It isn't just the Python world that uses TAL, there is also PHPTAL and 
there may be others that I didn't find.