[Zope] addressing contained objects

[hamish@allan.tc]

hello,

i'm new to zope and i've been playing around with DTML. i have been trying to 
create a website with a menubar comprising several images, each a label for a 
different subsection of the site. each subsection has a folder, and in each 
folder there is an image similar to the menubar image for that section but with 
a 'selected' appearance, like so:

root \
     |->sub1_image (image for subsection 1, normal appearance)
     |
     |->sub2_image (image for subsection 2, normal appearance)
     |
     |->sub3_image (image for subsection 3, normal appearance)
     |
     |->sub1_folder \
     |              |->sub1_image (image for subsection 1, highlighted) 
     |
     |->sub2_folder \
     |              |->sub2_image (image for subsection 2, highlighted) 
     |
     |->sub3_folder \
                    |->sub3_image (image for subsection 3, highlighted) 

there is common code in the root folder to display sub1_image, sub2_image and 
sub3_image alongside each other; executing that code in the namespace of each 
section folder gives that section its 'highlighted' appearance. this works 
fine, but i'd like to put my images into an 'images' subfolder, both in the 
root and within each section subfolder. but i can no longer address the images 
using dtml-var - i want to be able to use something like <dtml-var 
images/sub1_image> meaning "look in the current namespace for a container named 
images with an object called sub1_image; if not found, look down the stack for 
a container named images with an object called sub1_image, etc."

is this possible any other way? i have been well-advised by a friend of mine to 
use transparent folders, but i thought i throw it open to the list to see if 
there is any other way of doing something more akin to what i describe.

thanks in advance,
hamish


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