[Zope] Soft References in DTML

[Phil Harris]

try something like:
<untested>
<dtml-var "_[style_sheet].absolute_url()">
</untested>

Phil
phil.harris@zope.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Morton" <jwm@plain.co.nz>
To: "zope" <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 9:34 AM
Subject: [Zope] Soft References in DTML


> I'm constantly running into this general problem in DTML - how do I access
> an object or property who's name is given in a string?
>
> Here's a specific problem:
>
> I've got a Zclass product that has a string property in a sheet that's
> supposed to hold the name of the prefered cascading style sheet used when
> rendering the object. The name is automatically added to the header of the
> html doc when rendered, like this:
>
> <link href="<dtml-var style_sheet>" ...>
>
> But the style sheet itself lives a few directories down from the document
> being rendered so I really want the absolute URL. If I could act the
> object I could do <dtml-var "css_object.absolute_url()"> - but the name
> css_object (or whatever) is the value of the string style_sheet.
>
> So how can I dereference the string?
>
> Thank,
> John
>
>
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