[ZPT] Zope newbie question on accessing DTML Methods from ZPT

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Thu May 29 00:44:11 EDT 2003


Tom P. Allred wrote at 2003-5-28 11:31 -0400:
 > ...
 > I was halfway through TZB and happily using DTML Methods and Documents when
 > I discovered TZB, 2nd Edition.  It seems to promote all presentation through
 > ZPT and all action through DTML methods and Python scripts with DTML
 > Documents depreciated.  Since I'm starting from scratch anyway, I want use
 > current best practices and methods.  Would someone provide feedback on
 > current standards or point me to a resource?

ZPT for presentation and Python for logic.

 > As to my specific ZPT - DTML Methods question:
 > I created a test app using the navigation DTML Method (called as
 > <p><dtml-var navigation></p>) from the Zope Zoo example in a DTML document
 > to display subfolder links and titles.  This works fine but when I try to
 > call the DTML Method from a ZPT version of the same thing that uses macros
 > I'm not clear on how to call and use the results from the navigation from
 > within a fill-slot="body" code section.  Could someone point me to a good
 > resource for accessing DTML Methods from ZPT?

The Zope Book (2.6 edition).
It looks like

   <XXX tal:content="structure here/DTMLMethod" />


Dieter



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