{"id":185,"date":"2003-02-22T21:50:04","date_gmt":"2003-02-22T21:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20030222215004"},"modified":"2003-06-30T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-30T23:21:00","slug":"22022003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2003\/02\/22022003\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of SimpleTAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a slightly less political note than my last post, work is once again underway on SimpleTAL.  This time it&#8217;s thanks to an enquiry by Kevin Smith regarding support for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zope.org\/Wikis\/DevSite\/Projects\/ZPT\/METAL%20Specification%201.0\">METAL<\/a> in SimpleTAL.  METAL is a macro language that can co-exist with TAL, and which provides a way of copying parts of a document tree into a template and customising the part that was copied.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got an initial implementation working, but there is much to do before it is ready for release.  I need to make sure that SimpleTAL implements the Zope behaviour for METAL, and that the existing TAL functionality integrates well with it.  If all goes to plan however, I should have METAL support released within a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a slightly less political note than my last post, work is once again underway on SimpleTAL. This time it&#8217;s thanks to an enquiry by Kevin Smith regarding support for METAL in SimpleTAL. METAL is a macro language that can co-exist with TAL, and which provides a way of copying parts of a document tree [&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\/185"}],"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=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}