[ZPT] Plone conference talk - ideas please!

[Chris Withers]

Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> Had this excellent snippet of information been provided in the ZPT docs,

Which snippet? Which documentation?

> I could have helped myself; but the existing docs are too general for me
> to grasp.  I needed an example with a database, and couldn't find one. 

I'm suprised there isn't a cookboox example of this floating around somewhere...

> never get anywhere because that obviously doesn't work.  It was only due
> to experimentation that I decided upon:
> 
>   <td><strong><span tal:content="bodypart/spleen" /></strong></td>

Why on earth not just do:
<td><strong tal:content="bodypart/spleen">A bodypart</strong></td>

I'm afraid you can't blame ZPT docs for brain damage caused by other templating 
systems and people who simply don't think...

> We should make sure that the documentation provided has examples for
> people that are not steeped in c, python, java, or other OOP ways of
> life.

I suggest you browse the cookbook...

cheers,

Chris