Is there any reason why manage_addDTMLMethod/Document doesn't accept the new contents as anything other than a file object?

Is something like the following acceptable?

- def addDTMLDocument(self, id, title='', file='', REQUEST=None, submit=None): + def addDTMLDocument(self, id, title='', file='', data=None, REQUEST=None, + submit=None): """Add a DTML Document object with the contents of file. If 'file' is empty, default document text is used. """ if type(file) is not type(''): file=file.read() - if not file: file=default_dd_html + if not file: + if data is not None: + file=data + else: + file=default_dd_html ob=DTMLDocument(file, __name__=id) ...

Actually, file may be either a file object *or* a string - you should just be able to do: self.addDTMLDocument('MyDoc', title='MyTitle', file='my data...') Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com