{"id":112,"date":"2003-03-01T15:19:35","date_gmt":"2003-03-01T15:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20030301151935"},"modified":"2003-06-30T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-30T23:21:00","slug":"01032003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2003\/03\/01032003\/","title":{"rendered":"SimpleTAL version 3.0 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Version 3.0 of SimpleTAL is now available!  The major new feature in this release is support for METAL.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zope.org\/Wikis\/DevSite\/Projects\/ZPT\/METAL%20Specification%201.0\">METAL<\/a> is an HTML\/XML macro language that augments TAL.  It allows a sub-tree of a document to be associated with a macro name, and additionally for customisation points (slots) within that sub-tree to be defined.  Once a macro has been defined in this way you can then graft the sub-tree into a (potentially different) document and optionally customise the macro by passing in another sub-tree (i.e. filling the slot).<\/p>\n<p>While METAL is pretty nifty, it&#8217;s also very hard to explain without an example.  So if you are unsure what it is and why you might want to use it, take a look at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/software\/simpleTAL\/example.html#metalExample\">example<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Version 3.0 of SimpleTAL is now available! The major new feature in this release is support for METAL. METAL is an HTML\/XML macro language that augments TAL. It allows a sub-tree of a document to be associated with a macro name, and additionally for customisation points (slots) within that sub-tree to be defined. Once a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}