[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.5 Edition)/Using Basic Zope Objects

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Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:51:12 -0400


A comment to the paragraph below was recently added via http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/current/BasicObject.stx#2-69

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    A simple example of using DTML Methods is to create a DTML Method in
    the root folder called *objectList*::

      <dtml-var standard_html_header>

      <ul>
        <dtml-in objectValues>
          <li><dtml-var getId></li>
        </dtml-in>
      </ul>

      <dtml-var standard_html_footer>  

      % kaleissin - May 16, 2002 2:01 pm:
       DTML Methods are much more handy than DTML Documents, which sometimes behave folderishly or in similarly
       unexpected ways

      % Anonymous User - July 25, 2002 5:25 pm:
       I am still confused with DTML document and DTML method. What is the main difference?

      % Anonymous User - Aug. 31, 2002 3:23 am:
       There is a section which compares DTML documents/methods further down.

      % hansa - Sep. 20, 2002 5:51 pm:
       Again a bad example. Better use a breadcrumbs method.
       Something having both a *_header and *_footer i would use as DTML Document. 

       From which templates should this be called? 
       To which objects should this method apply?
       Is this an index_html?

       A DTML Method doesnt have properties (like title), but acquires them from caller.