[Zope] DTML rendering from python?

[Dieter Maurer]

Michiel Toneman wrote at 2003-1-22 16:38 +0100:
 > I'm
 > writing a python product that does some fancy processing of HTML. The
 > problem is that the DTML tag I add to the output of getHTML doesn't get
 > rendered in my DTML Document when I call the object. I'm probably
 > overlooking the obvious, but I'm totally stuck :-S
 > 
 > The code is like:
 > 
 >     def getHTML(self):
 >         "Returns HTML for page"
 >         html = self._htmltxt  
 >         # do lots of stuff to html here, but just to keep it simple: 
 >         html += "<p><dtml-var id></p>"
 >         return html
You must create a "DocumentTemplate.DT_HTML.HTML" instance
and then render (i.e. call) it.

Read the section "Calling DTML objects" in

  <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/book/chap3.html>

to call your "HTML" instance correctly.


Dieter