From: Stephen Simmons <stephen.simmons@healtharena.net>
1.) How do you magically get the DTML context from '<dtml-var A>' without having to resort to '<dtml-var "A(_,REQUEST)">' in the templates?
A.isDocTemp = 1 # or make it a shared class attribute
2.) How to convert an arbitrary text string into rendered DTML inside a python product method?
Here's what I use: from Globals import HTML from AccessControl import getSecurityManager class DTML(HTML): """DTML objects are DocumentTemplate.HTML objects that allow dynamic, temporary creation of restricted DTML.""" def __call__(self, client=None, REQUEST={}, RESPONSE=None, **kw): """Render the DTML given a client object, REQUEST mapping, Response, and key word arguments.""" security=getSecurityManager() security.addContext(self) try: return apply(HTML.__call__, (self, client, REQUEST), kw) finally: security.removeContext(self) def validate(self, inst, parent, name, value, md): return getSecurityManager().validate(inst, parent, name, value) Cheers, Evan @ digicool & 4-am