--- ECHO_content/VLPExtension.py	2005/10/11 20:10:34	1.49
+++ ECHO_content/VLPExtension.py	2005/10/13 15:59:42	1.50
@@ -810,19 +810,24 @@ class VLP_resource(ECHO_resource,Cacheab
     def readIndexFile(self,url=None):
         """reads the indexfile. presently url not None isn't implemented. In the future url can be defined."""
         if not url:
-            url=self.absolute_url()+"/index.xml"
+            urlTmp=self.absolute_url()+"/index.xml"
 
         if self.ZCacheable_isCachingEnabled():
             
-            result = self.ZCacheable_get(view_name=url)
+            result = self.ZCacheable_get(view_name=urlTmp)
             if result is not None:
                 # Got a cached value.
                 return result
 
         pagelist=[]
-   
-        fh=ECHO_helpers.urlopen(url)
-        dom=xml.dom.minidom.parse(fh)
+        
+        if not url:
+        
+            xmlTxt=getattr(self,'index.xml')()
+            dom=xml.dom.minidom.parseString(xmlTxt)
+        else:            
+            fh=ECHO_helpers.urlopen(urlTmp)
+            dom=xml.dom.minidom.parse(fh)
         
         
         for page in dom.getElementsByTagName('page'):
@@ -831,7 +836,7 @@ class VLP_resource(ECHO_resource,Cacheab
             fileName=page.getAttribute('file')
             pagelist.append((pageNum,text,fileName))
 
-        self.ZCacheable_set(pagelist,view_name=url)
+        self.ZCacheable_set(pagelist,view_name=urlTmp)
         return pagelist 
 
     def getFileName(self):