[Zope] Simple question (again)

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Bernstein [mailto:mbernstein@profitscape.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 2:08 PM
> To: Evan Simpson
> Cc: Arnaud Lecat; ZOPE
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Simple question (again)
> 
> 
> Evan Simpson wrote:
> > 
> > When you say 'document', do you really mean 'DTML Method'?  
> In a DTML
> > *Document*, 'id' and 'title' refer to the document itself, 
> while in a
> > *Method* they refer to the client/caller/container (grr).
> > 
> > You can use 'document_id' and 'document_title' to get what 
> you want in both
> > cases.
> 
> If these work for both DTML Methods and DTML documents, does 
> that mean that 'id'
> and 'title_or_id' are going to be deprecated?

'document_id' and 'document_title' work only for DTML Methods.  They are
legacy attributes, from the days before DTML Documents; they are hacks.

The problem here is not one of 'how do i get the id of a method'
really, the question should be, '*why* would I *want* to get the id of a
method'.  if you want your DTML object to be able to see it's own
properties, including it's id and title, then use a DTML Document.

If you want to get the id or title of a Method, then you might be doing
something wrong.  Of course, I could be convinced otherwise.  In fact I
don't think method's should even have titles; but that will probably
never go away because of backwards compatablility issues.

-Michel

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> Michael Bernstein.
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