Discuss TALES

This is the main page for proposing changes to TALES. Please add a sub-page for each proposal, and discuss it in comments to that page.

Proposals

Implemented in ZPT 1.3

Implemented in ZPT 1.2

  • Module Access In TALES - Provide access to imported Python modules through a builtin variable.
  • Act Only If Path Exists - Provide a convenient way to perform a TAL action if a path resolves, but do nothing if it does not.
  • Path Expression Variants - Change ‘exists’ and ‘nocall’ from TALES expression types into optional path expression prefixes.