[Zope] computing id and using it to display text from a DTML method

Craig Allen cba@mediaone.net
Sat, 22 May 1999 08:43:15 -0400


> > Alternatively, how could I create the text within the doc to
> > actually *say*
> > 'M23'?
> 
> You could call manage_edit on D23 and update it with a string of
> <!--#var M23-->
But that string is buried in the middle of many lines of HTML/DTML.  As near as
I know DTML does not support string replacement directly.

I had thought of building the contents as a "sandwich", pulling everything
before the 'M23' from one method, then the string 'M23', then the remainder from
another method.  But I can't save a method that looks like broken DTML, i.e.
that ends with '<!--#var '.
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Craig Allen  - Managing Partner - Mutual Alchemy
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