[ZPT] Re: Why no properties on templates?

Thu, 17 May 2001 01:50:14 +0200

It would be great with properties on templates. I have a main macro
which also includes the header section with meta tags etc. On some
templates I need an extra meta tag fx. for refreshing a page. For now I
have added a slot in the header that I fill if theres a need for it. I
do this i use <div metal:fill-slot="header"> but then I end up with a
div in my header which isn't really correct html. Is there a somewhat
more elegant way of doing this?

Tim Moore wrote:
> 
> "Evan Simpson" <evan@digicool.com> writes:
> 
> > From: "Tim Moore" <tmoore@tembel.org>
> > > Is there a particular reason why there's no way to set properties
> > > on templates as you can with folders, images, DTML documents,
> > > etc.?  I'd find it useful myself.  Is this something that might
> > > appear in a future version of ZPT?
> >
> > Partly because no one has taken the time to add them.  What's your
> > use case?
> 
> Well, as I said in a previous post, I've got a master template that
> writes the <head> section.  It includes a link to a stylesheet, but
> that stylesheet is getting a bit large so I thought I'd break into
> several smaller ones, if I could find a way to have each template
> specify which ones it wants to use.  I think the most elegant way
> would be to have a lines property on each template called
> "stylesheets" or something that declares the sheets that it needs.
> Then the master macro would generate a series of link elements based
> on the values in that property.
> 
> Just a thought anyway :-) It's not a dire need or anything, I was just
> curious whether it was something that could happen in the future, or
> something that was inherently impossible for some reason.
> 
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> Tim Moore
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