[ZPT] METAL expansion only when editing

Evan Simpson evan@zope.com
Fri, 07 Sep 2001 14:16:30 -0400


Peter Bengtsson wrote:

> I have a site; with lots of little pieces of PageTemplates. Some just
> contain a little HTML table on 10 lines.


>       <div tal:replace="here/thistable"/>
>       <div tal:replace="here/thattable"/>
>       <div tal:replace="here/thistext"/>


Are these the little tables in PageTemplates?  Why not use macros 
instead of tal:replace?  Macros were invented specifically so that you 
*wouldn't* need to have a zillion little HTML fragments with no page 
context.

>  1) I want to have the cool functionality of METAL when editing so that I
> can have a header and footer around little tables in Dreamweaver.
> 
>  2) When rendered as a webpage I want no METAL expansion.

Sorry, I don't understand.

Cheers,

Evan @ Zope