[Zope] Obtaining URL of Object w/Non-Var Name

[Martijn Pieters]

At 19:19 29-10-99 , Jeff Rush wrote:
>Alright, what's the trick to be able to retrieve the URL of a Zope object
>via DTML whose id has blanks or punctuation in it?  For example,
>in a normally-named object called 'site_css', I'd do:
>
>Ex. 1
>     <LINK REL=stylesheet HREF=<dtml-var "site_css.absolute_url()"> 
> TYPE="text/css">
>
>But if the object is named 'site.css', I can use it w/o another layer/call 
>or escape code.
>I tried the following (and a lot of others) and the _[] expression is 
>returning a string,
>which then fails when it lacks a 'absolute_url' attribute:
>
>Ex. 2
>     <LINK REL=stylesheet HREF=<dtml-var "_['site.css'].absolute_url()"> 
> TYPE="text/css">

<LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="<dtml-var "_.getitem('site.css', 
0).absolute_url()">" TYPE="text/css">

This retrieves the object from the namespace without calling it.

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