Hi Steve! On Thursday 18 October 2001 20:47, you wrote:

Hi Danny - thanks for you reply, ...

On a different (but connected) matter I'm really puzzled by that following.

if nodename="French"

<dtml-with expr="_.getitem(nodename,1)"> works fine

but if nodename="French.Folder1"

<dtml-with expr="_.getitem(nodename,1)"> doesn't work!

but if I specify the path as a literal it does work

<dtml-with expr="French.Folder1">

In the interests of my receding hairline, can you offer any explanation? (I was hoping to use many levels of folders)

Many thanks

Steve

Sorry for answering so late. Just in case you haven't found out by now: ;-) That's happening because "getitem" expects an object id (not a complete path) as a parameter. There is no object with the id "French.Folder1" in the namespace. What you want to do is traverse to an object, given its path as a string parameter. There are two built-in functions that do that, "restrictedTraverse" and "unrestrictedTraverse". unrestrictedTraverse will bring you to an object even if there are objects "on the way" that you are not allowed to access. "restrictedTraverse" on the other hand (usually the preferred one) will check for sufficient rights on every object along the path. Afaik, these two functions take the object's path as a string parameter, where the object ids themselves are separated by slashes. Try this out: Create a python script "goto" :-o holding this single line: (parameter: path) --------------------------------------- return context.restrictedTraverse(path) --------------------------------------- Now you should be able to get to your "subfolder object" by calling: <dtml-with expr="goto(nodename)"> Keep in mind that this time your object ids have to be separated by a slash (e.g. "French/Folder") If you want the same functionality with dots (because you have already set up everything to work "the dot way" :-)), you would change the script to: (parameter: path) --------------------------------------- from string import replace path_to_object = replace(path, '.', '/') return context.restrictedTraverse(path_to_object) --------------------------------------- There's one obvious problem with this: you can't use dots in an id. But this should only be the case with old - imported - *.html files, anyway... (un)restrictedTraverse will start "getiteming" the specified object ids starting from the object you called the function on. So if you only need this functionality in your (folderish) "Lang" object for example, you could put the script in there and change "context.restrictedTraverse" to "container.restrictedTraverse". Then the traversal will always start in "Lang". This way you will also avoid conflicts with other objects having the same ids. Let's say you have the following directory structure: /-+-Lang-+-English +-French-+-Folder +-Folder2-+-Folder-+-French-+-myObject +-... +-... +-... +-... +-goto (Python Script) In this case, the "context.restrictedTraverse()" version might not do what you intended when you call "myObject", because after finding "French" - too early - it will find the wrong "Folder", where you might be expecting something that's not there... Here, the "container.restrictedTraverse()" version would be the better choice. "container" will _always_ be the _script's_ container, no matter where the script is called from. On the other hand, this "context" behavior might as well be exactly what you want to happen... :-) Hope this helps, Danny P.S.: I've CCed this to the Zope mailing list, cos I thought it might of interest for others with similar problems.