pieter claassen wrote:
I am trying to render the index_html method of another object in a new "wrapper" object.
Normally you just do a <dtml-var object> and Zope will find the object.
But what if the object is far away in another hierarchy and I want to render it (not call its index_html method on my object!)
It is a bit unclear what you are trying to do. But to get to the object, you need a path to it. Just use the first objectManager that they both share as the root. <dtml-var "path.to.some.object.index_html()"> To give it a new context, you can pass it "this()" as an argument ( a "mapping dictionary") <dtml-var "path.to.some.object.index_html(this())"> You can even hand it some named parameters also: <dtml-var "path.to.some.object.index_html(this(), title_or_id='Some New Title')"> The values in the dtml page will be looked up in this order: named parameters -> mapping dictionary -> the objects original context regards Max M