[Zope] dtml-var enhancement suggestion

[James W. Howe]

At 02:15 PM 1/31/00 -0500, Jeff K. Hoffman wrote:
>On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, James W. Howe wrote:
>
> > I've noticed that in some of my DTML code I often times do something 
> like this:
> >
> > <dtml-if foo>
> >      <dtml-var foo>
> > <dtml-else>
> >      Some default text
> > </dtml-if>
> >
> > I do this so that I can build a template and view it without getting key
> > errors.  It would seem that a simple extension to dtml-var could make this
> > code a lot cleaner.  Would it be terribly unreasonable to add a
> > "default=xxx" parameter to dtml-var?  My code above could then be 
> rewritten:
> >
> > <dtml-var foo default="Some default text">
>
>You aren't far off. As of 2.1.x, try:
>
>   <dtml-var foo missing="Some default text">
>
>--Jeff
>
>---
>Jeff K. Hoffman                                         704.849.0731 x108
>Chief Technology Officer                                mailto:jeff@goingv.com
>Going Virtual, L.L.C.                                   http://www.goingv.com/

Cool.  As a followup, is there some way to reference another method name 
from within the tag?  Something like:

<dtml-var foo missing=defaultFoo>

where defaultFoo might be a DTMLMethod which contains the default 
results.  I've tried the syntax above and all I get is 'defaultFoo' in the 
output stream.

Thanks.

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