[Tutor] #include in DocumentTemplate?

[Lance E Sloan]

One of the things that frustrates me about learning Python is the lack
of documentation.  At least, what I want to know isn't documented or
it's hard to find.  Perhaps the reason it's so hard to find is that
such a feature doesn't exist yet.

As I mentioned in one of my previous messages, I've copied the
DocumentTemplate module out of Zope to use with some CGIs that I'm
writing.  It works well and I like it, but I'd like to have one DTML
file include another rather than having my program parse several of
them in a row.

Right now, I have code that looks like this:

	tmpl = DocumentTemplate.HTMLFile('../templates/header.dtml')
	print tmpl(title = 'Specify Your Unvailability Date')

	tmpl = DocumentTemplate.HTMLFile('../templates/unavailcal.dtml')
	print tmpl(mapping = vars())

	tmpl = DocumentTemplate.HTMLFile('../templates/footer.dtml')
	print tmpl(year = year)

What I'd like my code to look like is:

	tmpl = DocumentTemplate.HTMLFile('../templates/unavailcal.dtml')
	print tmpl(mapping = vars())

(Just assume I'm doing the right thing with the arguments to tmpl().)
And unavailcal.dtml would have something like this:

	<!--#include header.dtml -->

	[body stuff here]

	<!--#include footer.dtml -->

Is this possible?  I've tried it and it doesn't seem to work.  Would I
have to write a new DTML tag/function to do this for me?  Has anybody
already done this?

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Lance E Sloan
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