-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Dangoor [mailto:kid@kendermedia.com] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 00:42 To: Phil Harris; zope@zope.org; chas Subject: Re: [Zope] where are you sticking site-wide methods/resources ? (too manyDTML-WITH's) DTML-WITH's)

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At 08:38 AM 9/29/99 +0100, Phil Harris wrote:

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Couldn't you just do something like (untested)

<dtml-var "Imports.folder.method()">

One of the first things I tried as I remember. Worked OK for simple methods but for more complex methods :

a) variables kept disappearing (which means I really don't grok this acquisition business yet).

b) the DTML method could no longer 'import' other things.

Try this:

<dtml-var "Imports.folder.method(_.None, _)">

This will pass the namespace to the method, and possibly fix a & b above...

I think the idea of the import tag. If you had something like <dtml-import "imports.folder"> Then it would add it to the bottom of the namespace stack so that if aquisition failed the name lookup would try your "imported" location. Will this work the way I propose? Import might not be the best name? I think this would make things a lot nicer for people and be a whole lot more intuitive than the above.