[Zope] dtml-with question

[Laurie Nason]

You beauty!!! This worked a treat - thanks so much - now I can get back to
what I am supposed to be doing!!
Laurie

-----Original Message-----
From: David Hassalevris [mailto:bluepaul@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 7:56 PM
To: Laurie Nason
Subject: Re: [Zope] dtml-with question


Laurie,
If you havent tried something like this, give it a shot.
It may work :-0

#2--------------------------------
         <dtml-with name="lookups">
              <dtml-with "_.getitem(lookuptype)">
                 <add dtml method here>
              </dtml-with>
         </dtml-with>

David



Laurie Nason wrote:
>
> Nope - doesn't sort the problem out. Maybe I didn't explain myself too
well
> on the first attempt. What I am trying to do in the code is to add a dtml
> method in the folder of my choice - see code below....
> I call the method below with a lookuptype which is the name of one of the
> folders - it is then supposed to find the folder and create a new method
in
> that folder. Like I said before - the first piece of code works as it
should
> and creates my new method in the correct folder, but the second one
doesn't
> put the requested folder on the top of the namespace (or doesn't appear
to)
> it creates the new method in the lookups folder.
>
> My folders look like:
> lookups
>         |-->strain
>         |-->species
>         |-->etc...
>
> #1--------------------------------
>         <dtml-with name="lookups">
>                 <dtml-with name="strain">
>                         <add dtml method here (this bit works!)>
>                 </dtml-with>
>         </dtml-with>
>
> #2--------------------------------
>         <dtml-with name="lookups">
>                 <dtml-with name=lookuptype>
>                 <add dtml method here (this bit works!)>
>                 </dtml-with>
>         </dtml-with>
>
> Any ideas..?
> Laurie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of David
> Brown
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 11:33 AM
> To: Laurie Nason; Zope
> Subject: Re: [Zope] dtml-with question
>
> The problem is that
>
> >                 <dtml-with name=lookuptype>
>
> isn't really what you want -- you're telling dtml-var that the name is
> lookuptype, when what you really mean is that you want the value of
> lookuptype.
>
> It's probably more complex than this, but try:
>
> <dtml-var expr="lookuptype">
>
> The quotes are not controlling evaluation, like you think they are.  Inf
> act, by the time it gets to the dtml-var evaluation code, Zope has no clue
> whether or not you have quoted it or not.
>
> dave
>
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