[Zope] accessing attributes of a referenced object via ZPT

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

I am trying to make a nice display of some objects using ZPT.  These
objects refer (by storing the path as a string) to other objects and I
want to display an attribute of the referred-to object in the display.

What is the best design to achieve this?  The following ZPT code
works, but I highly doubt it is the best design :-)
  <td tal:content="python:here.restrictedTraverse(employee.department).title" />

Would it be best to write a python script that iterates over the
actual objects creating a "mirror" object for each that contains the
attributes to be displayed (without the intermediate references) and
let the ZPT handle only the mirror objects?

TIA,
-D

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If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
in us.
        I John 1:8
 
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