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All about Views, Templates, ...
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Generic Views
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OK, there aren't really generic views. Already the first implementation we
want to look at is a specic one: It is based on Zope Page Templates and
uses the classic CMF/Zope 3 approach: The template belonging to a view
calls a `main` macro and fills a slot there. But at least the template
implementation is decoupled from the view, so we are able to put a lot of
generic functionality into the view.

But in order to make a ZPT work we need a Zope-compatible request, so we use
the standard Zope 3 TestRequest.

  >>> from zope.publisher.browser import TestRequest

  >>> from cybertools.web.view import View
  >>> view = View(None, TestRequest())
  >>> view.render()
  u'<html...>...<body...>...</body>...</html>...'