The Zope3 Template Attribute Languate (TAL) specifies the custom namespace and attributes which are used by the Zope Page Templates renderer to inject dynamic markup into a page. It also includes the Macro Expansion for TAL (METAL) macro language used in page assembly.
The dynamic values themselves are specified using a companion language, TALES (see the 'zope.tales' package for more).
See: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/TAL%20Specification%201.4
Note: The code changes before 3.4.0b1 where not tracked as an individual package and have been documented in the Zope 3 changelog.