T.J. Mannos writes:

I have an ExternalMethod that processes an HTML file, extracts the contents of the BODY tag, and wraps my site template around it. (In other words, it takes a plain vanilla HTML file and adds standard_html_header and standard_html_footer).

[See http://www.zope.org/Members/unfo/howto_wrapper/index_html for more background]

The problem is this: I can't have arbitrary DTML code in the HTML file. Zope completely ignores it. I tried fmt=structured-text, but that doesn't work, either. Since the file is essentially read in as a string, is there any way to evaluate an arbitrary string of DTML code? What prevents you, to render the body? This should handle DTML expansion, at least for simple cases.

def wrap(self,what): REQUEST= self.REQUEST return self.standard_html_header(self,REQUEST) \ + what(self,REQUEST) \ + self.standard_html_footer(self,REQUEST) This will break, if one of the DTML objects needs arguments not present in the current REQUEST. Dieter