"Junkmail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 10 Feb 2005 18:26:52 -0800: > I've been playing with Zope for about a year and took the plunge last > week into making a product.
You should send Zope related questions to the Zope mailing list. You will need to subcribe. You can do this at "http://www.zope.org";. > ... > What doesn't work is when I refer to an object I've created from a > dtml-var or a tal:content or tal:replace statement. Instead of the > proper output I receive: <TextileClass at home> where TextileClass is > my class name and home is the Object ID I'm referencing. There is a fundamental difference when you "call" an object with ZPublisher (i.e. via the Web) and when you use it in a template. ZPublisher effectively "calls" "index_html" and if this is "None", it calls the object. A template (usually) calls the object (if it is callable) and then converts the result into a string. Apparently, your ZInstance is not callable. Therefore, it is converted into a string. Apparently, it does not have a custom "__str__", therefore, you get the standard string conversion for instances (that's what you see). > The fact that > the < and > surround the output make it invisible in the browser and > had me chasing ghosts for a while. I'd bet I'm not groking something > here. This should not happen in ZPT (unless you use "structure"). > So if I call /home I get the proper HTML output: "<b>What I am looking > for</b>" but when in another object I reference <dtml-var home> I get: > "<TextileClass at home>". > > Any thoughts are appreciated. Call a method on your ZInstance. To get the same result as via ZPublisher (the Web), call its "index_html". This may need arguments (I do not know). Dieter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
