Chris Withers wrote:

Steve Alexander wrote:

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You can use restrictedTraverse('slash/delimited/path')

AFAIK, that's not available in DTML...

Am I wrong?

You're wrong. unrestrictedTraverse is not available from DTML though, for fairly obvious reasons. -- Steve Alexander Software Engineer Cat-Box limited http://www.cat-box.net

Chris Withers wrote:

PS: Has your patch to allow &dtl.url-/folder/object; made any progress into the Zope core yet?

That's part of another proposal now. I really don't like having '/' characters in SGML entities. I have this heretical view that DTML should try to conform to SGML where possible. -- Steve Alexander Software Engineer Cat-Box limited http://www.cat-box.net

At 9/15/00 10:05 AM, Chris Withers wrote:

So:

<dtml-var "restrictedTraverse('slash/delimited/path')" absolute_url>

will work as I expect it to?

Well, I don't know what you expect :-) When I try to save such a construct with the handy-dandy Change button I get Document Template Parse Error Invalid attribute name, "absolute_url", for tag <dtml-var "restrictedTraverse(choice)" absolute_url> ... -- Dennis Nichols nichols@tradingconnections.com

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