[Zope] RE: This document's folder's URL?

[Dr. Ross Lazarus]

I've suggested a cheesy solution to this in
http://www.zope.org/Members/rossl/SpecificContext/
for zclasses but it will work for arbitrary folder structures too.
Embarrasing but effective. Just don't tell anyone...

> I have a menu DTML method which contains page-specific
> sidebars. Though this menu often changes, it would be great if I could
> use acquisition to minimize the number of menu methods. However, if I
> have a folder in which a menu method from a parent is acquired, I
> can't think of a way to make URLs absolute. Right now I'm doing:
> 
> <a href="../">Home</a><br>
> ...
> 
> But, it's quite obvious what happens in descendants; ../ no longer
> links to my homepage, and none of the relative links work.

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Dr Ross Lazarus
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