[Zope-dev] Better ZDOM examples?

[Paul Winkler]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:00:07PM -0700, Benjamin Isaac wrote:
> I'm using Zope version 2.5

Wow. You do know that's over four years old, right?
Are you stuck with that version for some reason? 

> My problem:  I need to access the DOM.  I need to pass a value from a
> form field to a python script.

Unfortunately I can't make sense of the above... it was a non-sequitor. 
Let's split those up, or you can explain how you think they're related:

> I need to access the DOM.

Why?

> I need to pass a value from a
> form field to a python script.

That normally has nothing to do with DOM. 
Typically, the form would just submit to a url that resolves
to a script, and that script will get the value from the
request. See the chapters "Basic Zope Scripting" and "Advanced Zope
Scripting" in the online Zope Book, at
http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition 
Sorry if you've read all that before, I may be totally missing
your point.

> I'm not sure if 2.5 implements ZDOM.  If so, has anyone used it yet? 
> If someone has used it, then perhaps that someone could send me a code
> snippet as an example?

Personally I've never seen ZDOM before.
AFAICT from a very brief look, it's nothing but a different way of
traversing the zope object tree.  Possibly convenient at times
but I don't see anything there that can't be done with the "normal"
zope APIs.

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Paul Winkler
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