[Zope] Question about Page Templates & DTML Document

[sean.upton@uniontrib.com]

I'm not sure I understand the question.  If you mean that you would like to
embed the document as part of your ZPT template, do what I suggested below.
If you want to link to it, you likely need some way of having your
application/templates generate HTML hyperlinks to each of the documents you
want to link to - in this case, a Catalog query may be what you are looking
for: supposing that all your news items are cataloged, you could have a
method (python script, likely) to query the catalog to return a list of the
last 5 news item object, for example, and then create a dtml-method that
looped over each of those objects to get the title and abolsute URL of each,
printing out the appropriate HTML).

Also, I don't think that DTML Documents have __call__ methods, like the DTML
method objects do, which means that you have to code around that to get the
text out of the document for use; I would take a look at the API reference
in the online help.

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Koekenberg [mailto:zope@digital-adventures.nl]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 1:19 PM
To: sean.upton@uniontrib.com
Subject: RE: [Zope] Question about Page Templates & DTML Document


Hello Sean,

Thanks for your reaction in The Zope list.

I've one more question.

The page from where I link to a news item is an HTML document or aDTM 
method.

Do you have an example how link to a pagetemplate with an external DTML 
Document.

greetings

Martin Koekenberg

-----Original Message-----
From: sean.upton@uniontrib.com
To: zope@digital-adventures.nl, zope@zope.org
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:55:49 -0800
Subject: RE: [Zope] Question about Page Templates & DTML Document

> 1. You can't use the URL as the way to include the DTML method
> rendering in
> your ZPT.  You actuially need to call the method in the context of some
> namespace.  You actually need to get to (traverse to and obtain) the
> method
> object and call it via tal:content or similar within the page template.
> Assuming the DTML method is in the same folder, here/MyMethodName is
> what
> you would use in TAL to obtain it and call it.
> 
> 2. You can include content generated by a DTML method inside a page
> template
> like this:
> 
> <span tal:replace="structure here/myDTMLMethod">Contents Go Here</span>
> 
> The structure at the beginning of the statement above makes sure that
> the
> results are not HTML-escaped, because it is quite likely the DTML
> method is
> returnning stuff that is already HTML formatted, not plain text...
> 
> Sean
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Koekenberg [mailto:zope@digital-adventures.nl]
> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:27 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Question about Page Templates & DTML Document
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This will be a newbe question.
> 
> I've a number of DTML Documents (News items) And a Page Template
> (Layout 
> News item)
> 
> How can I load a dtml document in a Page template by using the URL to 
> specify the dtml Document...
> 
> www.domain.com/newstemplate?newsitem_01
> 
> Who can help me ?
> 
> Thanks !!!
> 
> 
> Martin Koekenberg
> 
> 
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