[Zope3-Users] non HTML page template

[Ibro]

Hmm, I thought Zope3 is not limited only to web applications.

Anyway, I've dropped my question of having a non HTML page template, because I found faster way to have a custom machinery that generates print jobs rather than using (page) templates.

Thank you for the suggestions.

--- On Sat, 5/23/09, Yuan HOng <hongyuan1306 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Yuan HOng <hongyuan1306 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Zope3-Users] non HTML page template
> To: "Ibro" <ibro_x at yahoo.com>
> Date: Saturday, May 23, 2009, 8:03 AM
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:58 AM,
> Ibro <ibro_x at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> I'd want to make a template for printer output in raw
> form which contains control characters.
> 
> Can I make the template with ZPT or should I implement
> 
> a custom template class ?
> 
> If I have to implement a custom template class, which
> class
> 
> should I subclass (or, where should I start) ?
> 
> I'm a bit lost ...
> 
> 
> Sounds like you are trying to generating printer control
> language directly from zope. ZPT is definitely not suitable
> for such a purpose. It is intended for HTML-like output.
> 
> It seems to be strange that you would like to generate such
> low-level printer control code directly through zope3. Zope3
> is anyway primarily a web server framework, and the views
> are supposed to be based on HTTP and HTML, though certainly
> you can write custom views to do what you wish. 
> 
> 
> May be you can look at the z3c.rml library which produces
> PDF files for printing.
> 
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