[Zope] var rendering question
J Kinsley
jkinsley@horus.bticc.net
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:59:52 -0400 (EDT)
After two and a half weeks of tinkering with Zope, I have decided
that I will ditch my conventional web technology for this new alien
technology. It has already rewired half my brain, so I might as well
go for a complete rewiring job. You sure you guys at DC aren't from
another planet? ;-)
The site I am constructing as a means of learning Zope uses frames by
default if supported by the remote. For browsers that do not like
frames or users who don't want frames, I have constructed psudo
frames using tables.
Insterad of trying to explain this in words, below is a quick snippet
of code illustrating the problem.
FRAMESET:
<frameset>
<frame target=title src=<!--#var title_src-->>
...
</frameset>
TABLESET:
<table>
<tr>
<td colspan=2>
<!--#var title_src-->
</td>
</tr>
...
</table>
With that, both the problem and the concept of what I am doing should
be clear. For each frame there is an xxx_src variable which is set
to the DTML object id to be displayed in the particular frame
(title_src=/Title.dtml). The frameset version works as expected
while the tableset only displays the '/Title.dtml' string (which is
why my test version uses <!--#var Title.dtml--> instead). My
question is this. Is there a builtin way to get the contents of the
DTML object pointed to by xxx_src instead of the object name? If
not, then I am assuming that I will need an external method which is
one beast I have yet to figure out.
Regards,
Jarrod Kinsley