[thelist] zope: a few questions

[george donnelly]

[Chris W. Parker commented on 1/14/03 12:32 PM]

> Seb <mailto:seb at members.evolt.org> wrote:
>
>> Content can immediately be stored in a couple of ways. Most likely
>> you will want to try out storing StructuredText, which is a minimal
>> set of loose markup. Basically, you write a text file with markup like
>> *this* for bold
>> text, "this is a link":http://mysite.com ... etc. You can pull this
>> content straight into the page templates that you've built in ZPT.
>
> StructuredText? i didn't see that type listed in the type box next to
> the add button. what am i missing?

StructuredText is not an object, though there is an object called
STXDocument that is an add-on Product (install it in your Zope and it'll
show up in your add menu). Structured Text is more like a light markup
syntax. ZWiki, CMF, Plone and many other Zope Products offer Structured Text
as an option along with HTML and Plain Text.

Here's more information on Structured Text:

http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Articles/STX

> also, why do the filenames general use an underscore (_) as the
> extension delimiter and not a period (.)?

caue python uses those . 's to indicate relationships and other stuff. you
can use  the something.html format for your files but its safer to use the _
or simply not use extensions for html files.

index_html is really the only one that's written in stone but in a
soon/future release this will be modifiable.

hth

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