[Zope] - Is this a bug?

Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:24:10 -0800 (PST)

I've just started playing around with Zope and the Plutonia example so
I don't know enough to figure this one out:

I defined the standard_html_header as follows :

---start of standard_html_header--------

<HTML><HEAD>
   <TITLE><!--#var document_title--></TITLE>
   </HEAD>
   <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
   <P><!--#var PlutoniaLogo--></P>

---end of standard_html_header--------

and in each of the the folders News, Products and Research, 
there an index_html (e.g. title : Plutonia News) with the following
text (or something like it) :

-----start of index_html---------

<H2> </H2>
<P> Welcome to Plutonia News Section!</P>
<P> We don't have any news items to report yet though. </P>

-----end of index_html---------

When the page is rendered, the document_title is displayed correctly
as <H2> Plutonia News </H2>.
However the standard_html_header template expansion has this quirky
behavior : 
the PlutoniaLogo is translated correctly into PlutoniaLogo but the
document_title in between the <TITLE> tags is empty! 

See the rendered HTML:

---start of rendered HTML --------

<HTML><HEAD>
   <TITLE></TITLE>
   </HEAD>
   <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
   <P><IMG SRC="PlutoniaLogo" ALT="PlutoniaLogo"></P>
<H2> Plutonia News</H2>
<P> Welcome to Plutonia News Section!</P>
<P> We don't have any news items to report yet though.</P>
</BODY></HTML>

---end of rendered HTML --------

Question: What's the difference in evaluating the document_title
inside standard_html_header and evaluating it inside index_html ? Is
there no dynamic or recursive expansion of variables at all? Is there
anything that I'm missing here? If there is no recursive expansion of
variables, is there anyway I can put a dynamically evaluated variable
in the standard_html_header so that it displays the correct title?

Other than this, I think Zope is pretty cool. 
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