[Zope] newbie-dtml

Michel Pelletier michel@digicool.com
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:04:05 -0400


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geir B Hansen [mailto:geirh@funcom.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 10:40 AM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] newbie-dtml
> 
> 
> For a news-page i need to dynamically deliver a snippet (say the first
> 200 letters or so) of the latest updated document in my
> "newsarchive"-folder.
> 
> Initerating through the folder and finding the document, and 
> displaying
> a link to it works like a dream, but how do i reference the content of
> the DTML-document ?
> I can extract properties, but how do i get to the content itself ??
> 
> 
> Looks like this at the present :

I don't understand what your iterating twice over, but if the object
your iterating over is a DTML Document you can get 200 characters of
it's content with:

<dtml-var sequence-item size=200>

-Michel