[Zope3-dev] New METAL extension feature

Mon Nov 22 14:31:58 EST 2004

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:46:56AM -0700, shane at hathawaymix.org wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Paul Winkler wrote:
> >At least one of us is confused ;-)
> >Did you get that right, or is it:
> >
> ><html metal:define-macro="coolskin_page"
> >      metal:use-macro="page">
> >
> >Otherwise, I don't see where coolskin_page comes from.
> 
> "coolskin_page" refers to the "page" macro defined by coolskin.  I should 
> have written it this way:
> 
> <html metal:define-macro="page"
>       metal:use-macro="context/@@coolskin_macros/page">

OK, that clears it up. Thanks.

> "coolskin_macros" is a view that grabs the standard macros from coolskin. 
> One of the standard macros in coolskin is "page", which comes from the 
> first template I listed.
> 
> The name of the macro being defined needs to be "page" because the 
> convention in Zope 3 templates is to get the skin's page macro via 
> "context/@@standard_macros/page".

Gotcha.

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Paul Winkler
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