[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.5 Edition)/Dynamic Content with DTML

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Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:05:42 -0400


A comment to the paragraph below was recently added via http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/current/DTML.stx#2-31

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    This is basically what you might expect. Zope inserts a header, a
    footer, and a title into the web page. DTML gets the values for these
    variables from a number of different places. First, the *var* tag tries
    to find a variable in the current object. Then it looks in the current
    object's containers. Then it looks in the web request (forms and
    cookies). If Zope cannot find a variable then it raises an exception,
    and it stops executing the DTML.

      % Anonymous User - June 6, 2002 9:24 am:
       "current object's containers" what are containers? are you saying the current file's parent folder? or the
       sibling folders?

      % Anonymous User - June 6, 2002 9:31 am:
       the current object's folder, then in turn *its* folder, then its folder, etc.

      % Anonymous User - Aug. 20, 2002 11:05 am:
       The preceding search order is so important I think it should have its own heading.

       SL