[Zope] RE: Bizarre error with standard_html_header

[Curtis Maloney]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Martijn Pieters wrote:
>
> You are seeing transactions at work. Your DTML Method _is_ being processed,
> only an exception caused the publishing process to stop, roll back the
> transaction, and return the error message to you.
>
> DTML is not a linear language like ASP, it is not processed one line at a
> time and bails out at the first error. DTML is parsed into an object tree
> when entered, and this tree it then later on asked to render itself. An
> exception in this tree will propagate down to the publishing level, and
> then turned into an error response. So DTML is, like Python and Java,
> object oriented and exception driven.
>
> If you want to see how far a page gets, try using <dtml-try> blocks around
> parts of your code. You can then catch the exception higher in the object
> tree, and generate your own messages in reaction to this.

Fine... so my debuging techniques are less than perfect.  I will change them 
in future. Thanks.

That doesn't change my original problem, which everybody has so far decided 
to ignore.

Curtis.