Hi Roy,

your problem maybe the dot in the filename x.gif, x.png !? This is not allowed in a pyhton expression.

Thanks Dirk. However, that is not really what I am asking; In fact, in this particular case, the name "x.gif" works fine. My question is: "How would I use a pathname comprising more than one element in a dtml-var expression. If you read my original message a bit more thoroughly, you will see an example of that.

Make a TransparentFolder named Images in the root / . Put your graphics into Images named x_gif and x_png and you should can call them in every dtml like

<dtml-var x_gif> or <dtml-var x_png>

Regards, Dirk

I do appreciate the pointer to TransparentFolders; I saw them a reference to them elsewhere, and it appears that they might be what I need to use. Thanks, Roy.

Roy Mathew schrieb:

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Folks,

I am trying to use acquisition to include images in my webpages. My intent is to have a central directory of Images, and several other hierararchies of Zope objects that use those images.

For example, witness the following structure:

Images/gifs/x.gif Images/pngs/x.png Content/A/page1_dtml (contains: <dtml-var x.gif>) Content/B/page1_dtml (contains: <dtml-var x.png>)

My understanding of using pathnames in acquisition, is that one needs to insert the minimum relative path to the images from a reachable parent folder, that one can get away with, somewhere in the referring URL.

Now, if I use the URL http://localhost/Content/Images/gifs/A/page1_dtml OR http://localhost/Content/Images/pngs/B/page1_dtml thing work fine.

What I would really like to do is be able to specify the paths to the images inside of the dtml file itself, something like: Content/A/page1_dtml (contains: <dtml-var Images/gifs/x.gif>) Content/B/page1_dtml (contains: <dtml-var Images/pngs/x.png>)

so that my URLS can be simpler, like: http://localhost/Content/A/page1_dtml http://localhost/Content/B/page1_dtml and still find the gifs.

But this fails in ZOPE; can someone show me the light please!

Thanks, Roy Mathew.

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