[Zope] Newbie Acquisition Question

[James W. Howe]

I've been playing with Zope for a couple of days.  Coming from a Smalltalk 
background, many of the concepts employed by Zope are very 
familiar.  However, I seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding about how 
acquisition works.  As an experiment, I created a Folder object called 
"Testing".  I defined an index_html document with the following DTML code:

<dtml-var standard_html_header>
<dtml-var folderName>
<dtml-var standard_html_footer>

I also defined a DTML method in Testing called "folderName" which contained 
the following:

Testing

I viewed the page in a browser via http://localhost:8080/Testing and sure 
enough I saw a page with the phrase "Testing" correctly displayed.  I then 
created a Folder within Testing called "SubTest".  In SubTest, I defined 
one DTML method called "folderName"  Inside of this method I put the contents:

SubTest

I then displayed the page via http://localhost:8080/Testing/SubTest and was 
confused when the screen still displayed the phrase "Testing" instead of 
"SubTest".  It's probably my Smalltalk bias, but I was expecting that the 
system would look up the tree from SubTest until it found an index_html 
that it could display.  Having found that, it would see that it needed to 
execute the method "folderName".  Since the object being displayed was 
SubTest, I assumed that it would try to find the "folderName" method 
starting in SubTest.  Having found it, it would use the result from that 
method for display.  However, this is not what happened.  Where did I go 
wrong?  I was under the impression that I could factor common behavior up 
the tree and only implement distinct behavior at lower levels.  Did I just 
do something wrong?  Is there a way to accomplish what I want to accomplish?

Thanks.

James W. Howe				mailto:jwh@allencreek.com
Allen Creek Software, Inc.		pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html		
Ann Arbor, MI  48103