[Zope] Generic Content Object for use with Page Templates

[Juan David Ibáñez Palomar]

Hi Tim,

The ancestor of the Page Templates is HiperDOM, the last versions
of HiperDOM released by Lalo Martins had a class named DataObject
whose purpose is exactly the one you describe. So the idea was
HiperDOM templates for presentation and DataObject instances for
content (just replace HiperDOM by ZPT or DTML).

You can still get HiperDOM from:

  http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/HiperDom/

Unfortunately Zope don't has any standard object for this, and
development of DataObject stopped with the development of HiperDOM,
as far as I know.

But, the DataObject class inspired what now is the LocalContent
class of the Localizer product. The LocalContent class is specially
focused in multilingual content. But, of course, you can use it to
store only one language version, after all multilingual content can
be seen as a generalization of monolingual content.

If you're interested you can download Localizer from:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/lleu

If you want to try it use Localizer 0.8.1, the 0.9.0 version
depends on Zope 2.6 (because it needs the Unicode support that
Zope 2.6 includes).


Best regards,



Tim Hicks wrote:

>I've been using Zope for a while now, and I'm a little miffed that I don't
>really know the answer to this.  Having finally succumbed to the preachings
>of the 'Withers Church of the Page Template', I thought I'd give them a shot
>for a site I'm building.
>
>So, I've got myself setup up with and index_html page template that I want
>to use to present the content of my site.  Obviously, I could use more zpts
>to hold my content, but I don't really like that idea coz I just want to
>store the 'meat in the sandwich' (of standard_html_header/footer as it
>was) - zpts seem overkill and potentially a little confusing for naive
>users.
>http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/ZPT.stx#2-90
>mentions that this is not appropriate and mentions some alternative content
>objects.  However, it says CMF solves this issue - and I'm not using CMF,
>so...
>
>I could use DTML Documents, but I don't want the user to be able to write
>DTML really, and recent posts, coupled with ChrisMcD's 2.6 Edition Zope Book
>lead me to believe that way lies the dark side.
>
>DTML Methods clearly aren't right.  I want properties anyway.
>
>STX - haven't used it but it looks like it could be handy.  Still, I want my
>users to be able to bash out some html when editing.
>
>Files - may be appropriate as they can just store text and can be edited
>through the ZMI if less than 64KB I believe.  Still, if I want to have the
>index_html zpt present the contents, I'll have to have urls explicitly of
>the form file/index_html, otherwise I presume I'll just get a file download
>prompt from my browser.
>
>So, I think I'm left with Folders.  If I store my text as a property of a
>Folder (and adjust my zpt to reflect this), I can have an auto-presenting
>content object that doesn't require users to remember to slap the bread
>around their meat (if you know what I mean ;-) ).
>
>Are Folders the content object of choice in this case then, or am I missing
>something.  BTW, I'd rather not have to use objects that aren't bundled zope
>as I have to fight for every additional product that is installed.
>
>Thoughts anyone?
>
>tim
>
>
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J. David Ibáñez, http://www.j-david.net
Software Engineer / Ingénieur Logiciel / Ingeniero de Software