[ZPT] Structured Text

[Michael Bernstein]

jim at jaydublu.com wrote:
> Excuse me if I'm being dense, and this is obvious, but how do sites like
> zope.org use ZPT to apply styling to Structured Text documents?
> 
> 
> 
> Say I have pages such as page1.stx, page2.stx and page3.stx and want
> common navigation on each pge controlled by a ZPT document called
> pagetemplate, I could call page1.stx/pagetemplate
> page2.stx/pagetemplate etc. but there must be a better way!

There is. ZPTs have a Macro language, Macro Expansion TALES (METAL):

http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/AdvZPT.stx

Cheers,

- Michael Bernstein