[Zope] Newbie Question - DTML syntax for referencing files with extensions

[Paul Winkler]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 12:12:54PM -0700, Gary Speer wrote:
> Hi all -
> I've been through the books and searched howtos, but can't find the trick.
> 
> In short, I'm looking for the sytax to use to reference a file name that has
> an extension so that the extension is treated as a continuation of the
> filename and not treated as an attribute of a resulting non-existant object
> due to truncating the extension.

DTML is not good at this.  You have to use a python expression and
use dictionary syntax. 
So 
<dtml-var foo.html>

would be more like

<dtml-var expr="_['foo.html']">


I like it better in TAL:

<span tal:content="here/foo.html"> </span>

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