[Zope] Running up and down the hierarchy

[Bill Anderson]

On 09 Mar 2001 11:27:50 +1300, Danny William Adair wrote:
> Hello to everybody!
> 
> Supposed I have an object hierarchy looking like this:
> 
> the_root------A-----Aa
>                  ---Ab(image)
>         ------B-----Ba
>                  ---Bb------Bba
>                          ---Bbb(DTML document)
> 
> A DTML document "Bbb" lying in folder Bb wants to access the image in Folder
> Ab.
> The only way I know how to do this is
> 
> <dtml-with Bb>
>   <dtml-with B>
>     <dtml-with the_root>
>       <dtml-with A>
>         <dtml-var Ab>     (or do whatever with it)
>       </dtml-with>
>     </dtml-with>
>   </dtml-with>
> </dtml-with>
> 
> Of course this sucks.


Have you tried this? (untested):
<dtml-with A>
   <dtml-var  Ab>
</dtml-with> 


Seems to me it should work. seems to me I've done this before somewhere
...

But I could be wrong. :^).

Bill Anderson