<dtml-var id> is equivalent to <dtml-var name=id> <dtml-var "id"> is equivalent to <dtml-var expr="id"> The first is named syntax. What follows the = is an object identifier. The second is expression syntax. What follows the = is a python expression. <dtml-var "id"> returns the object referred to by the id. <dtml-var id> returns the string representation of the object's id. <dtml-var "id()"> returns the string representation of the object's id. Welcome to hell. ;-) Read this: http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/gainenlightenment

-----Original Message----- From: danny shevitz [mailto:danny_shevitz@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 1:24 PM To: zope Subject: [Zope] I don't understand a specific <dtml-var> behavior

I'm still trying to learn DTML and in particular the various rules for when to quote or not or...

I have come across the following syntactic issue which I don't understand.

<dtml-var title> puts the title in the document. Fine. <dtml-var "title"> puts the title in the document. Fine. <dtml-var id> puts the id in the document. Fine. <dtml-var "id"> puts Nothing in the document. ????.

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