That's exactly what I have, DTML code in a text file. It's been generated by python and contains "<dtml-XXX ???>" tags. I want read and execute the text file in Zope. The reason the above file resides on the local file system rather than within Zope is a design choice. I felt it would make life easier for us in certain respects. I may have been wrong. When I use - <dtml-let routine="_.getattr(LFSfiles, 'testfile.txt')"> <dtml-var "_[routine]"> </dtml-let> I get the following error - Exception Type TypeError Exception Value expected string or Unicode object, ImplicitAcquirerWrapper found Traceback (innermost last): * Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 100, in publish * Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 88, in mapply * Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 40, in call_object * Module OFS.DTMLMethod, line 130, in __call__ <DTMLMethod instance at 0230FE90> URL: http://localhost:8080/testing/basetest/manage_main Physical Path:/apacheVirtualHost/testing/basetest * Module DocumentTemplate.DT_String, line 474, in __call__ * Module DocumentTemplate.DT_Let, line 76, in render * Module DocumentTemplate.DT_Util, line 201, in eval __traceback_info__: _ * Module <string>, line 1, in <expression> * Module AccessControl.ZopeGuards, line 67, in guarded_getitem TypeError: expected string or Unicode object, ImplicitAcquirerWrapper found testfile.txt is - <p><strong>DTML code</strong></p> <p><dtml-var expr="1+2+3"></p> Thanks again. Samir. -----Original Message----- From: Small Business Services [mailto:toolkit@magma.ca] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 18:22 To: zope@zope.org; DaMann Subject: Re: [Zope] Re: Rendering DTML from string From: "DaMann" <hammerhead@linuxmail.org>

Doesn't work <dtml-var "_[someDTMLstrObj]">. I get the raw dtml in page source. Which doesn't display in the browser because browser doesn't understand DTML tags.

I am not familiar with the object you have stored in local file storage, but if you have the name of a dtml method stored in a variable (ie. variable routine contains 'x', where 'x' is the name of a dtml method) then you can execute that method via: <dtml-var "_[routine]"> If you have a text file containg dtml code and you want to execute that code, the only thing i can think of is to place that code into a dtml method and then execute the method, as follows: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('routine', 'tst')"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('dtmlcode', '<dtml-var standard_html_header><dtml-var REQUEST><dtml-var standard_html_footer>')"> <dtml-comment> create the new method </dtml-comment> <dtml-call "manage_addDTMLMethod(routine, 'atitle')"> <dtml-comment> now put some content into the new dtml method </dtml-comment> <dtml-call "_.getitem(routine).manage_edit(dtmlcode, 'anewtitle2')"> <dtml-comment> now execute the new method </dtml-comment> <dtml-var "_[routine]"> To make this work with a text file containing dtml code, just replace the REQUEST.set('dtmlcode'... with the code to read your text file and store the contents in 'dtmlcode'. HTH Jonathan _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )