On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 12:24:36PM -0700, Zhi-Wei Lu wrote:

Paul, Thank you for your tip of text = container.research[name].read()

Sure. Please keep discussion on the mailing list, thanks.

Actually, in my case it should be text = container.research[name].research_description_html

research_description_html contains abstract in HTML format.

When I post the the message, I got it wrong, actually I want the "text" to preserve HTML format rather than <P> as it show in the page source, when it returns to the main index_html from this function.

Do you know how and where I set the html_quote flag?

No, I don't. All that you showed us of where this text goes is:

...

...

<dtml-let rand1="get_random_image()" cap1="get_folder_title(name=rand1)" text="get_abstract_sample(name=rand1)"> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr>

Presumably the dtml method/document where you found that code contains something like: <dtml-var text>. I am *guessing* that it looks like <dtml-var text html_quote> or <dtml-var text html_quote=1>. Remove the html_quote attribute and you should be OK. But since you say this used to work in zope 2.7, there is probably some other problem. It's hard to say without having access to more of your code. Sorry. -PW -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com