[Zope] dtml files in dtml files? getting frames to work on a simple Product

[J Cameron Cooper]

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>I am trying to write a simple web based chat server Product.  The interface is simple with a frame for entering text, and another frame for viewing the chat so far.  My problem is that in a dtml file, I put links to two other dtml files (those being the two frames), and the frames don't show up.  How can I make this work?
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Beats me. What you just wrote could mean you're doing any number of 
things. If you show us your source, maybe someone can spot the error.

But since I like shooting in the dark, you should be doing something 
like this fragment:

<frameset>
  <frame src="&dtml.url-frame1" name="frame1" />
  <frame src="<dtml-var frame2 url>" name="frame2" />
</frameset>

Remember that the frameset takes a URL, not content. That's what the 
DTML above gives you (in two different syntaxes) for 'frame1' and 'frame2'.

For relative links, I suppose you could also say

<frameset>
  <frame src="frame1" name="frame1" />
  <frame src="frame2" name="frame2" />
</frameset>

Notice that here there's no DTML involved.

Note: This is all untested. But it should work.
Also note: don't use frames if you can get away with it. Frames are bad.

          --jcc