[Zope] referencing object with variable

mindlace mindlace@imeme.net
Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:20:08 -0600


mindlace wrote:
> 
> Zopistas,
> 
> This renders the DTML Document named by the cookie variable id:
> <dtml-var "_[REQUEST.cookies['id']]">

Haha!  Thank you Rik for answering my question a month ago:

Rick Hoekstra wrote:
>Darran Edmundson wrote:
>> 
>> Say one has an object reference and knows the
>> string id of a child node.  From this info, we
>> want an object reference to the named child.
>> 
>
>wouldn't
>
><dtml-var "_.getitem('<desired_ref>').<whateverproperty>">
>
>get you what you want?

Yes indeedy, Rik, that *is* what I wanted, and it saved my posterior. 
Thanks!

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