"Chris McDonough" <chrism@digicool.com> wrote <snip>

I think the idiom here will be:

<dtml-with "datamgr.getSessionData()" mapping> <dtml-var foo> </dtml-with>

...

But I don't see how to do that, because if I stick a dtml-with, for instance, into generic header code (included, for example, by standard-html-header, then this with statement is required to be *closed* when I edit it).

Yeah, the split between header and footer is unfortunate right now... one way to have the stuff available in all your documents would be to use the request namespace in the header:

<dtml-let data=sessiondatamgr.getSessionData()"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set(data, 'sessiondata')"> </dtml-let>

...then in the rest of your documents, you could refer to sessiondata:

<dtml-let data="REQUEST['sessiondata']"> .... </dtml-let>

This is not particularly encouraged. Hopefully the upcoming HiperDOM will solve the header/footer split problem.

I think a cleaner near-term workaround is to have the standard header explicitly copy all the session key-variable pairs into REQUEST.other: <dtml-in "sessiondatamgr.getSessionData().items()"> <dtml-let k=sequence-key v=sequence-value> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set( k, v )"> </dtml-let> </dtml-in> (This presumes that the getSessionData() return value supplies an items() method, which I haven't actually checked). Tres. -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver tseaver@digicool.com Digital Creations "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.org