[TYPO3] Read-only pages as templates?

[Mike]

Roger Bunyan wrote:
> Mike wrote:
> 
>> Is there like a plugin that does something like this?  Or do you have 
>> any advice, thanks.
>>
> 
> Create a new page outside your current root, and create your template 
> pages there - and add this page to the db mount point in your be_userroup.
> 
> a smarter way would be to use the t3d import export feature - rightclick 
>   on page in page tree select more options > export to t3d
> 
> 

Thanks,

Do you know if it's possible to save and load .t3d files 
programatically?  Does the plugin API in typo3 allow for that?

What we want to do is use .t3d files for exactly what they're normally 
used for- with the one exception that instead of saving/loading them 
from the user's local hard drive, we want to save/load them to a 
directory on the server.

We'd write a plugin/extension for typo3 so that the admin interface 
would allow for that.

Can this be done, does the API allow the saving/loading of .t3d files 
programmatically?

thanks