Lee, I've been diddling around with the same stuff. It took me a lot of introspection with printing of errors via MrCreosote/Spew. To answer your question, 'section' is an object which contains an attribute 'blocks'. If you want to render the dtml in there, you can run the 'render_blocks' method in '<zope-instance>/lib/Python/pDocumentTemplate.py' You pass it the section.blocks object and a mapping dictionary which is the current namespace stack that gets passed in as the only argument to the 'render' method in you tag definition. If you just want the raw text, check you the render_blocks method, so you can see how they take apart the 'section.blocks' object. As to the object hiarchy of everything, your guess is as good as mine as to why there's a list of tuples of blocks wrapped in a section object, wrapped in another blocks object, I have know idea. Perhaps the designer of the document templates could answer... -Brett

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"LEE" == LEE Kwan Soo <kslee@plaza1.snu.ac.kr> writes:

LEE> Hi. I'm playing/struggling to make a custom block dtml tag. LEE> Let me call it, dtml-quote tag. LEE> dtml-quote tag is similar to dtml-comment tag except it will emit LEE> html_quoted, not rendered version of what lies LEE> between <dtml-quote> ... </dtml-quote>. LEE> (I feel it will be usefull when I show & write some dtml examples on my LEE> korean zope site). LEE> After seeing around some python sources, LEE> I finally got that tname is the name of the tag, args is args, and section LEE> is something, in the following code. LEE> def __init__(self, blocks): LEE> tname, args, section = blocks[0] LEE> and section seems to have 6 attributes/methods: LEE> '__name__', '_v_blocks', '_v_cooked', '_vars', 'blocks', 'globals', 'raw' LEE> But that mistic raw is null string, '' and blocks is no help for me. LEE> How can I retrieve the raw source string enclosed in a block tag pair? LEE> LEE Kwan Soo. LEE> ps. My English is evem more cryptic this morning. Sorry I've sat up alnight play LEE> Kingdom Under Fire. LEE> _______________________________________________ LEE> Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org LEE> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev LEE> ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** LEE> (Related lists - LEE> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce LEE> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )