[z3-five] (re)using zpt macros from view page templates

Mon Jan 29 23:45:31 CET 2007

Chris Withers wrote:
> Andreas Jung wrote:
>>> I have a page template that's being used for Five view. I now want to
>>> re-use part of that template as a zpt macro in another Five view.
>>>
>>> How should I go about doing this?
>> By registering the template with the macros as views?
> 
> Is that the canonical way? it seems pretty heavyweight in terms of 
> instantiating a whole view, with request and all, just to get a macro...
> 
> How about:
> 
> my_macro.pt
> -----------
> <html metal:define-macro="template">
> ...etc...
> <metal:x define-slot="foo"/>
> ...etc...
> </html>

<browser:page name="mymacro" template="my_macro.pt" ... />

> myview.pt
> ---------
> <html metal:use-macro="view/getMacro">

use-macro="context/@@mymacro/template"

> <div fill-slot="foo">
> blah
> </div>
> </html>
> 
> Would the above work?

Why dontcha try it out?!?

Anyway, it looks like lots of unnecessary typing. Just register the 
tempalte with the macro as a page and access the macro as outlined above.

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