A new issue of "Zope Guru of the Week" is available: =================================================================== Issue #5 -- Rendering DTML in Properties =================================================================== Status: Open Zen Level: Disciple (3/8) Keywords: DTML ZClasses Submitted by: Chuck Burdick chuck.burdick@tradingtechnologies.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- This problem occurs when you try to make a DTMLDocument-ish ZClass. 1. Suppose you have created a ZClass that you call 'myClass'. 1. Give 'myClass' a property sheet called 'properties'. 1. Create a text property called 'content' on 'properties'. 1. Create a view to edit 'properties'. 1. Create an instance of 'myClass'. Q: If you put dtml tags in 'content', how can you render the object and interpret the tags? For example, suppose you created 'index_html' as a DTMLMethod in 'myClass' as:: <dtml-var standard_html_header> <dtml-var content> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> This will not work. It will display the text value of 'content' but the dtml tags will not have been evaluated. This is a problem I frequently encounter. I do not want to create a complicated subclass of the existing DTMLDocument classes. Instead, I want a quick-and-dirty ZClass in which DTML tags are valid. ------------------------------------------------------------------- To reply and win undying glory and mondo guru points: http://zope.palladion.com/demos/ZGotW/5