sorry. Bad example. I just don't want to do it that way. I'm passing it as a parameter, and it has just got to happen :) >From inside a external python method it would be something like this: from DocumentTemplate import DT_Util text_html_quoted= DT_Util.html_quote(text_with_html) Look at the timeobject. You can either... <dtml-var "ZopeTime()" fmt="%a"> ...or... <dtml-var "ZopeTime().strtime('%a')"> Something like that, please, folks. Cheers > <dtml-var "'text %s text'%id" url_quote> the url_quote is a parameter to > dtml-var. > -- > Andy McKay. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "peter bengtson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 11:01 AM > Subject: [Zope] url_quote written differently > > > > 1a) <dtml-var id> is one way of writing it. > > > > 2a) <dtml-var "'text %s text'%id"> is another way of writing it > > > > 1b) <dtml-var id url_quote> is a second way of writing it > > > > 2b) ????? How do I do this one?? > > > > > > I have tried this, but that didn't work: <dtml-var "'text %s > > text'%id.url_quote()"> , but that didn't work either. > > What's the syntax? Anybody? > > > > Cheers, Peter > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > > (Related lists - > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > > > _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )