[Zope] Interrogating DTML values from within an External method

[Tony McDonald]

>hink it should make a difference.
>
>Anyway, the way I've always done it is to explicitly name the variables and
>not bother trying to use the REQUEST.  So, my function would look like this:
>
>def ExternalMethod(self, var1, var2):
>
>and my dtml call to it would be:
><!--#var "ExternalMethod(var1=var1, var2=var2)"-->
>
>Then thing about the self variable that gets passed in (I think) is it
>passes in a reference to the folder, not the dtml document.  At least I use
>it to call other methods using self.somemethod.
>
>Hope this helps a bit.

Thanks for the reply Nick, I've taken to passing my variables this 
way rather than relying on my pretty meagre knowledge of namespaces!

thanks
tone.
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