[Zope] How to get (and manipulate) rendered html of a dtml method prior to publishing?

[Richard Ettema]

Hi,

How do I get a dtml-method to render its html prior to publishing the page?

I have a dtml-method which normally is inserted into another page i.e.
<dtml-var some_dtml> inside index_html.
This inserts the dtml of some_dtml into index_html, then index_html is
published, right?
But I have a single occasion where I need to get the rendered html some_dtml
would create, prior to index_html being published. I need to retrieve some
of the html using _.string.split etc. How do I grab the html in such away
that I can manipulate it??

I have tried variations of <dtml-var some_dtml html_quote> which gives me
the html I need, but I cant workout how I can put this into a <dtml-let ...>
or similar to manipulate. I have tried other ideas but they all return the
dtml in some_dtml rather than its html, giving me errors.

Your help on a simple solution (I am sure!!!) will be much appreciated.

Thanks

Richard