[Zope] Options for Server Side Includes

Edward Pollard pollej@uleth.ca
Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:00:15 -0700


As part of the process of migrating content from other web servers to
Zope I'm faced with a bit of a puzzle in regards to handling the server
side includes used on the old system.

I've found some comprehensive discussion on SSI with DTML, but we're
only using Page Templates. I, of course, understand that tal:replace can
be used, but I'm wondering if there are any other options. (Can't DTML
be used in a Page Template? I thought I read that somewhere but it
doesn't work...) The DTML examples are at least similar to our current
usage.

I'm concerned with the vast majority of our userbase who use server side
includes, and if I can find a way to ease transition, well that would be
spectacular. Anyone ever work on a problem like this?

(We are running a Netscape server at present, so the SSI is of the
format <!--#include virtual=""-->. I wonder if there was some way to get
Zope to recognize this format...)