Re: [Zope] organizational questions

Martin Dougiamas wrote:

The funny thing is that

<!--#var "myapp.myfunction"-->

correctly returns all the raw content of the DTML document, so it *can* find it OK.

Any ideas?

The quotes switch DTML into "expr" (expression) mode. Outside of expressions, DTML is limited to very safe operations. Getting attributes (the dot) is an operation that requires the security machinery to get involved, to make sure that you have permission. I agree that this inconsistency is confusing, as are things like sequence-item outside an expression and sequence_item inside an expression. Perhaps if we do a major overhaul of DTML (e.g. changing it to an XML-ish syntax) we'll look for ways to make it more consistent. --Paul