[Zope] Getting an object from it's id

[Andrew Kenneth Milton]

+-------[ Geoff Armstrong ]----------------------
| on 1/23/01 12:34 PM, Oleg Broytmann at phd@phd.pp.ru wrote:
|
| In DTML there doesn't seem to be a way of saying, "I have this string with
| the name of an object, now fetch me the object."

if objectname is actually a variable with the name...

<dtml-with "_.getitem(objectname,0)">

or <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('fooobject',_.getitem(objectname,0))"> to
get the object into a variable to pass or manipulate.

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