One of us is probably really missing something here. I also have no trouble taking files from the file system and stuffing them into zope as dtml from external methods. The problem I'm wrestling with is the opposite - I can grab zope dtml objects in external methods, but I can't figure out how to call some mythical function render(foo) the way zope does - converting all the zope bits (such as <!--#var bar-->) into the same html that the zope ORB would. Any advice appreciated... <928251944.57469-@fezzik.endicor.com> wrote: Original Article: http://www.egroups.com/group/zope/?start=5647

This is almost trivial to implement. My filesystemed database app looks for *.dtml files as it's walking the fs and loads them as dtml methods of the SubDir (folderish) object in which they reside. You can use DTMLMethod.add() or handle it directly with the DTMLMethod class. Just send the file contents as the "file=" argument. Acquisition works just like with zope dtml methods, though you may well need to futz with the object __roles__ when you add it. You also would need to add an 'update' method for the dtml file, which I haven't gotten around to yet. I just restart the server right now if I need to edit one. :^)

Since you can read the dtml source in before creating the method, you have the opportunity to handle any potential metadata that you may want to store in the dtml source...

Kent

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