I think I maybe didn't explain the problem quite clearly or I don't understand the acquisistion reply.
Here's the paths :
/dbtitle the method /dbtitle_query the sql /webmaster/a_test a test document
dbtitle is the method, dbtitle_query is the SQL, a_test is a document. The sample document, a_test, has the following contents (which doesn't work).
" a link to <dtml-call dbtitle(74)> which is a proxy or local url"
Trying to pass the argument 74 to dbtitle hoping to have the rendered results of dbtitle show up in the document a_test. Here are some other permutaitons of a dtml tag I have tried in the document a_test without prefered results:
Based on these examples, I think you probably don't quite get DTML. That's okay; it's very hard to get. I'll comment on these and also point you at the previous thread "testing with dtml-if".
<dtml-var dbtitle(mytitle=74)>
This asks for the rendering of something named 'dbtitle(mytitle=74)'. This doesn't exist, and is probably an illegal name. It would work fine, however, if you said:: <dtml-var "dbtitle(mytitle=74)"> or, in an equivalent but more explicit form, <dtml-var expr="dbtitle(mytitle=74)"> Putting the quotes in makes it a python expression rather than a name. Note that you can also use a variable from the DTML namespace like:: <dtml-var "dbtitle(mytitle=someparameter)"> Note also that this is different from a string:: <dtml-var "dbtitle(mytitle='somestring')"> Just like in regular Python.
<dtml-var dbtitle?mytitle=74>
Somewhat like above, but you conflate URL parameters with Python ones. URL parameters don't work here.
<dtml-let mytitle=74><dtml-in dbtitle></dtml-let>
You got close here. This probably would have worked had you used dtml-var instead of the loop handling dtml-in.
<dtml-var expr="mytitle=74"><dtml-in dbtitle>
Here you try to use dtml-var to work like dtml-let, and further use dtml-in instead of dtml-var.
What I'm thinking is I need a tag that will pass the value of mytitle in the name space to the call to dbtitle....
You were right here, but the inconsistent syntax of DTML tripped you up in using its implicit namespace concept. Both of these problems are why many Zope developers dislike DTML. I for one will encourage you to look at ZPT and Python Scripts, where it would have been much more obvious what to do:: <a href="dummyurl" tal:replace="python:context.dbtitle(47)">title</a> Without the whole implicit namespace thing, it's pretty obvious what you need to do to pass a parameter: the same thing you do in any other programming language.
That part works, what I want to do is to be able to give people that edit web pages on my server a single tag with a record number for these hyper links to appear in there web pages when some one accesses their page for example my test page, a_test.
Note that you can do this without any of the above by using a URL parameter variable. But that's only a suggestion to keep you from having to create a bunch of a_test lookalikes. --jcc -- "My point and period will be throughly wrought, Or well or ill, as this day's battle's fought."