[Zope] yet another how-to question

[Dieter Maurer]

Dennis Allison writes:
 > ...
 > Now, to decide whether to include a note or not, I need to look at 
 > the contents of the childNode, in particular, it's attributes.  But 
 > how does one reference the child node instance to enquire about its
 > nodeName, for example.  The obvious approach
 > 
 > 	child.__get_nodeName()
 > 
 > fails in an External Method (the code is in the Python-level Extensions
 > directory, not the Product's own Extension directory--is that a problem?).
Zope does not use attribute names beginning with "_" for public
use.

The correct name for the method is "getNodeName", defined in "OFS.ZDOM.Element".

With my "DocFinder" product

  <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope>

you can easily find out what methods an object supports....


Dieter