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Re: Elements beta -- Python-based site build tool needs beta testers

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4/20/2002; 6:23 PM by Nicholas Riley
4/20/2002; 6:23 PM by Nicholas Riley
RE: Elements beta -- Python-based site build tool needs beta testers (#16763)
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In article <Conversant-30668@scriptmeridian.org>, Samuel Reynolds <sam@spinwardstars.com> wrote:

> For example, in Frontier (and, apparently, in Elements) > you would create a page template with a macro indicating > where the page content should be inserted. You would > then create a content document with no page formatting > whatsoever. With Zope, you would instead create a > top-of-page template and a bottom-of-page template. > Then, in your content document, you would insert the > DTML for the top of page before your *real* content > and the DTML for the bottom of page after your *real* > content. So, in effect, it's more like SSI than like > Frontier's template insertion.

Zope has a new templating language, ZPT, which is extremely neat looking, because you can edit a page from a WYSIWYG editor. All of the inserted code goes into tag attributes.

<http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/TutorialPart1>

I've been meaning to look at this for a long time, but haven't really needed it...

-- Nicholas Riley <njriley@uiuc edu>

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>Zope has a new templating language, ZPT, which is extremely neat >looking, because you can edit a page from a WYSIWYG
 





At 06:29 PM 4/20/2002 -0400, Nicholas Riley wrote: > > ... So, in effect, it's more like SSI than like > > Frontier's