[ZPT] Confused about Zope

[Shane Hathaway]

Magnus Heino wrote:
>>>Can this be used inside script and style tags?
>>
>>Well, I don't think we should mix XML TAL and non-XML TAL in the same
>>document, even in script and style tags, if that's what you mean.  But
>>your next sentence suggests that's not what you mean. :-)
> 
> 
> Right. However, should "text templates" support METAL?
> 
> If so, you could put javascript in a "text template", make it define a macro, 
> include that macro in a page template, and have it render itself in the 
> context of the page template...

Using an implementation I have in mind, that would work.  Text templates 
would produce the same byte code as page templates.

> What also would be really nice is the i18n-namespace in js files. I don't know 
> a good way to translate strings in a javascript today?

Interesting idea.

>>>Today (in cmf) I move any css to a .css.dtml-file, and any javascript to
>>>a .js.dtml-file.
>>
>>Today we have "page templates"; perhaps in the future we could put
>>non-XML TAL in "text templates".  Then we could register the .css and
>>.js extensions as text templates.
> 
> 
> Yes, this would be a great thing.
> 
> Hm, thinking of "text templates" I remembered this thing;
> 
> http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/TextTemplates

Cool!  If we configured lalo's product to use angle brackets, we might 
have a working prototype.

Shane