[Zope] Pass <dtml-var sequence-item> as parameter to External Method

[Tino Wildenhain]

Thomas G. Apostolou schrieb:
> I have an External Method "CharSetConv" that get a
> String_To_Be_Converted, its encoding and the encoding to convert it
> to.
> 
> I call it like this:
> <dtml-in sequence-item>
>         <td><dtml-var expr="CharSetConv(_, 'String_To_Be_Converted',
> 'ISO-8859-7', 'UTF-8')"> </td>
>       </dtml-in>
> but in the place of 'String_To_Be_Converted' i want to pass <dtml-var
> sequence-item>, and i can not find the way to do so.
> i have tried to write it like:
> <dtml-in sequence-item>
>         <td><dtml-var expr="CharSetConv(_, '<dtml-var sequence-item>',
> 'ISO-8859-7', 'UTF-8')"> </td>
>       </dtml-in>
> but does not work
> Can anyone help please?

Well, DTML sux for a reason ;)

but <dtml-in sequence-item> makes no sense unless you have list in list.

You dont need an external method to convert between charsets:

<dtml-var
    expr="_['sequence-item'].decode('iso-8859-7').encode('utf-8')" >

HTH
Tino