[Zpt] Bootstrapping ZPT documentation with ZPT (or: Eating your own dogfood)

Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:30:40 -0500

From: Todd Coram <todd@digicool.com>
> What say ye all? Should the ZPT specs and general documentation be
composed
> using ZPT rather than ST?

Blech.  ZPT is for composing HTML, ST is for composing simple text
documents, and Wikis don't do ZPT.

> I can see creating a the ZPT FrontPage/HomePage as a template that
includes
> the body of the other templates (source).  HiperDOM had a special behavior
> defined where a template could include another template.

So does ZPT: macros.

> <body>
>   <span metal:use-macro="Summary.html" />
>   <span metal:use-macro="RoadMap.html" />
> </body>
>
> Now, this is legal (and should work!), but may break the concept of macros
> as units that describe presentation rather than content.

How so?  I don't know what "Summary.html" and "RoadMap.html" are, but it
sounds like they are loaded with presentation.

Cheers,

Evan @ digicool