[Zope] How to make a script return rendered dtml

[Peter Bengtsson]

Try this:

(!! be careful with excessive recurssion !!)

print context.index_html(context,ERQUEST)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Hicks" <tim@sitefusion.co.uk>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 3:39 PM
Subject: [Zope] How to make a script return rendered dtml


> I have a ZClass (testclass) which subclasses DTMLDocument, and within this
> zclass, I have a script (python) called index_html.  Obviously, this
script
> is called each time an instance of testclass is requested.  Based on the
> presence of a query string, I want to either return the document_src
> (although with a few modifications), or simply return the rendered
> instance... by this, I mean have all the dtml tags that are in the
instance
> evaluated.  So, my question is, how do I make Zope evaluate the dtml tags?
>
> Here is what I have so far in my script:
>
> ------------
> if context.REQUEST.QUERY_STRING == 'editor':
>     print context.raw
> else:
>     print context
>
> return printed
> ------------
>
> The 'else' statement simply gives me things like,
>
> &lt;dtml-var standard_html_header&gt;
>
> I also tried 'else: render(context)', which was simply a guess on my part,
> but I get a Zope error as follows:
>
> Error Type: AttributeError
> Error Value: validate
>
> Can anyone enlighten me?
>
> Cheers
>
> tim
>
>
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