One way might be to forego the use of the dtml-var tag to display the image and just do: <dtml-with "_.namespace(imagename='images.hd' + section)"> <IMG SRC="<dtml-var imagename>"> </dtml-with> Chris McDonough mailto:chrism@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com Publishers of Zope http://www.zope.org

-----Original Message----- From: Goodrichs [mailto:nbd95@macconnect.com] Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 6:06 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] String to object ID

We have a short snippet of code that builds an image name from properties when a web page is called. We need to use this string to directly call the image object and display it in the page. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to coerce a string into an object id.

Any hints?

currently:

<dtml-with "_.namespace(imagename='images.hd' + section)"> <dtml -var imagename> </dtml-with>

this correctly prints the name of the image object we want. 'images.hd.thisimage'

How do I use that to display the image?

DAve.

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