Edward Pollard writes:
... If I have a text file in a directory, I can get the content from it from simply eg theContent = context.myFile
How can I get the content out of a Page Template object? You can use "document_src" and (maybe "PrincipiaSearchSource"). Both are protected by "View management screens".
I found this out with my "DocFinder" product: <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope>
A related problem I have is that I can call my script from the context of a file object, but not a Page Template. eg. myFile/myScript
This allows me to access the file as 'context'. Now, I want this script to work on Files and Page Templates, but when I try to access myPageTemplate/myScript, it simply displays the rendered template. Is there any way to do something like this? I fear that is because Page Templates bind the "traversal_subpath" (like Python Scripts do). Unlike with Python Scripts, they do not provide a way to customize this behaviour.
I do not know why they bind "traversal_subpath". I think, it was accidental (because the inherited "Script" does it). Maybe, you file a collector report. The effect of binding "traversal_subpath" is that URL traversal stops at the object. The remaining URL path goes to the "traversal_subpath". This is lost for Page Templates, as it is not exposed (you see, it feels like a bug). Dieter