[ZPT] ZPT with Amaya and WEBDAV questions

Neil Burnett neil@efc.be
Sat, 27 Oct 2001 01:31:47 +0200


> > On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 00:54, Neil Burnett wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I am experimenting with ZPT using Amaya and WEBDAV (on WinNT)
> and have a
> > > couple of questions.
> > > [snip]
> > > 2	When I create PTs that use other PT chunks, I can only edit
> > the master PT.
> > > This is because if I edit the chunk directly, Amaya turns it
> into a full
> > > html compliant PT. This means I end up with web pages inside
> > web pages that
> > > sometimes don't work (at least in Amaya).
> >
> > What do you mean by 'other PT chunks? Are you defining those 'chunks' as
> > macros within a PT?
> >
> > Michael.
>
> No. I want to create a page from small fragments that can also contain tal
> satements. The objective is to make all parts of the page
> editable using an
> editor. Macros sound like some form of programming rather than something
> editable with Amaya or Dreamweaver, so I haven't looked at METAL yet.
> perhaps I should?
>
> By the way, my fears about Amaya are confirmed. The first real
> page template
> I tried to modify got corrupted worse than MS-Frontpage does to asps:-( It
> was a good idea, but it doesn't seem to work in practice.
>
> Regards
>
> Neil

Sorry. I have read about METAL and see that it is in fact the ZPT way. I
will spend time on macros.

Regards and thanks

Neil